About this artwork
Throughout her life Tudor-Hart struggled to make a living as a photographer and never built an elaborate portrait studio. She received portrait commissions through her extensive network of contacts and friends (including exile circles) and sold photographs to a wide selection of newspapers and journals. She also attempted some fashion photography, including this rather chilling image taken for a shoot about wartime fashions. Evidently Tudor-Hart was more comfortable portraying her subjects in their own environment.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Edith Tudor-Hart (1908 - 1973) Austrian
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title:Untitled Fashion Shot, London
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date created:Photographed about 1940
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printed by:Owen Logan (born 1963) Scottish
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materials:Gelatin silver print
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measurements:30.20 x 30.10 cm
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object type:
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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 279.68B
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gallery:
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...