Washing Strung Between Tenements, Dundee
About this artwork
This photograph was taken in Dundee during the filming of a documentary ‘Scottish Universities’. It was a film about the foundation and growth of the four Scottish universities: St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. A beautifully composed image, Suschitzky draws the viewer into the scene. The washing poles and lines heavy with clothes allow the eye to dance across the image. Gradually from the darker areas figures appear, the two girls in chatting in the foreground, the lone figure in the alley behind and the young boys gathered on a terrace at the right.
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title:Washing Strung Between Tenements, Dundee
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date created:1948; printed 1989
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materials:Gelatin silver print
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credit line:Purchased 1989
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accession number:PGP 10.4
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Wolfgang Suschitzky
Wolfgang Suschitzky
Wolfgang Suschitzky, a photographer and cameraman born in Vienna, became one of the leading documentary makers on the British film market. He came to England in 1934 and signed up with Paul Rotha's Strand Films company in London. In a career spanning sixty years he has shot over a hundred films for...