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Winter, man going to the early shift, steel works, Hartlepool

Photograph
1963 (Photographed)
Artist/Maker
McCullin, Don (Photographer)
Place of origin
Hartlepool (Photographed)

Photograph of man walking at dawn, smoking factory chimneys on background, collapsed wooden post fence in foreground beside man.

Object details

Category
Photographs
Object type
Photograph
TitleWinter, man going to the early shift, steel works, Hartlepool (popular title)
Materials and techniques
gelatin silver print
Gelatin Silver Process
Brief description
20thC; McCullin Don, Winter, Hartlepool, 1963
Physical description
Photograph of man walking at dawn, smoking factory chimneys on background, collapsed wooden post fence in foreground beside man.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 257mm
  • Image width: 389mm
  • Sheet height: 344mm
  • Sheet width: 489mm
Gallery label
McCullin is best known for his war photographs, but these earlier works made as a personal project show he had already developed a skill for capturing hardship. Here, men and women forage for coal to supplement their meagre fuel supplies during winter in the northeast. In some of the images, bodies blur into the land. In others, however, McCullin presents compelling individual portraits.
Credit line
Photograph copyright of Don McCullin
Subject depicted
Industrial Sites
Place depicted
Hartlepool
Bibliographic reference
D. McCullin, Hearts of Darkness, London, 1980, pl.9
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
PH.1250-1980

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1060122/winter-man-going-to-the-photograph-mccullin-don/
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