About this artwork
Edith Tudor Hart was in South Wales in the 1930s following her husband's appointment as a GP there. As communists they would have sympathised with the economic hardship of the miners in the Rhondda valley. During the industrial depression following the First World War, unemployment figures in the area soared. With the help of other unions, the National Unemployed Workers' Movement (NUWM) organised Hunger Marches, which demanded more fair unemployment legislation. This photograph was taken during one such demonstration, with the photographer perched on a post opposite the crowd of men.
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artist:Edith Tudor-Hart (1908 - 1973) Austrian
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title:Demonstration, South Wales
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date created:Negative 1935
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printed by:Owen Logan (born 1963) Scottish
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materials:Gelatin silver print
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measurements:(framed: 50.80 x 40.64 cm)
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credit line:Printed 2004 from original negatives held in the Edith Tudor Hart Archive
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accession number:PGP 279.4A
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Edith Tudor-Hart
Edith Tudor-Hart
Edith Tudor-Hart, née Suschitzky, was one of the most significant documentary photographers working in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Vienna, she grew up in radical Jewish circles. Edith married Alex Tudor-Hart, a British doctor, and the pair moved to England. There she worked as a...