Broadstairs
Photograph
1999 (made)
1999 (made)
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Toby Glanville, a young British photographer, was recently commissioned to produce a series of photographs depicting people at work and in their local environments in Kent. The photographs from this series, published in the book Actual Life are a sensitive record of life in this southern English county at the in the early years of the new millenium, across a range of people and subjects. This still life complements the portraits in the series, adding an extra dimension to Glanville’s record of particular places and communities. The photograph shows the interior of a shop, perhaps a village post office. Using natural rather than flash light, Glanville picks out the greetings card counter while the rest of the shop is cast in shadow, and invests these banal objects with an extraordinary poignancy.
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Materials and techniques | C-type print |
Brief description | 'Broadstairs', [greetings cards display], 1999, c-type print by Toby Glanville |
Physical description | Colour photograph of greetings cards. |
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Credit line | Gift of the photographer. Copyright Toby Glanville |
Production | This work was the result of two commissions to record people in their occupations and environment in Kent at the turn of the century. The commissions involved Photoworks, Kent County Council, Sevenoaks District Council and Tunbridge Wells Borough Council. |
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Summary | Toby Glanville, a young British photographer, was recently commissioned to produce a series of photographs depicting people at work and in their local environments in Kent. The photographs from this series, published in the book Actual Life are a sensitive record of life in this southern English county at the in the early years of the new millenium, across a range of people and subjects. This still life complements the portraits in the series, adding an extra dimension to Glanville’s record of particular places and communities. The photograph shows the interior of a shop, perhaps a village post office. Using natural rather than flash light, Glanville picks out the greetings card counter while the rest of the shop is cast in shadow, and invests these banal objects with an extraordinary poignancy. |
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Accession number | E.342-2003 |
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Record created | February 24, 2004 |
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