Bus Queue 1983
Photograph
1983 (made)
1983 (made)
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John Heywood's candid photographs of children are essentially a record of everyday life, and over 100 of them were exhibited in 1990 at Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood (now the V&A Museum of Childhood). Some of the images in the exhibition showed gentle scenes, such as bathing the baby, a family outing to the park, or playing at home. Others went for the unvarnished truth, at least some of which was still considered fairly shocking when they were taken in the early 1980s - teenage parents with their baby, boys enjoying a quick cigarette on the bus to school. Others again might be considered inappropriate for exhibition just twenty years later - boys playing with quite realistic-looking toy guns, or a naked child paddling in the sea. This group of seventeen images was selected from the exhibits.
Object details
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| Title | Bus Queue 1983 (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Photographic paper on card |
| Brief description | 'Bus Queue 1983' black and white photographic print of adults and children waiting at a bus stop:; paper and card, taken by John Heywood in England, 1983 |
| Physical description | Black and white landscape photograph mounted on white card. The image shows a suburban bus queue, photographed from the rear: most of the would-be passengers are adults, but a small child in a pushchair is visible at the head of the queue, and at the back, in the centre of the photograph, is a family group of a mother with three small children. One small boy, wearing an anorak, top and shorts, is looking into the distance (in the direction from which the bus would approach); another, in a jumper and shorts, with a hooded coat hanging over his head and shoulders, is seated on the pavement while his mother fastens his shoe; the third is a younger boy wearing a checked coat and seated in a pushchair with a rucksack hanging from the handles. In the background is a housing estate. |
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| Summary | John Heywood's candid photographs of children are essentially a record of everyday life, and over 100 of them were exhibited in 1990 at Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood (now the V&A Museum of Childhood). Some of the images in the exhibition showed gentle scenes, such as bathing the baby, a family outing to the park, or playing at home. Others went for the unvarnished truth, at least some of which was still considered fairly shocking when they were taken in the early 1980s - teenage parents with their baby, boys enjoying a quick cigarette on the bus to school. Others again might be considered inappropriate for exhibition just twenty years later - boys playing with quite realistic-looking toy guns, or a naked child paddling in the sea. This group of seventeen images was selected from the exhibits. |
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| Accession number | MISC.1072-1992 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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