'Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire 1982
Photograph
1982 (made)
1982 (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 | 'Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire 1982 (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Photographic paper on card |
| Brief description | 'Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire 1982' black and white photographic print of adults and children by the seaside; taken by John Heywood in the UK, 1982 |
| Physical description | Black and white landscape photograph mounted on white card. The image shows a scene near the crazy golf course in Sutton-on-Sea: a young man with a moustache, and wearing jeans and a T-shirt, is seated on a kerb and bottle-feeding a baby which is wrapped in a towel. Behind him to one side is a pushchair with a child's castle-shaped plastic bucket hanging from one handle and a bag (probably a changing bag) on the other; behind him to the other side is a bench upon which sit a young woman and an older man and woman, with a little boy in swimming trunks leaning against the older woman's knee. Part of another figure is visible to one side. |
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| Object history | Selected from over 100 images shown in the exhibition at Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood (bought from the photographer - RF 92/1572 ) |
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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.1071-1992 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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