Joseph McKenzie
Beatle Girl
About this artwork
Although on the surface this is an image of a little girl enjoying herself on a walk with her older sister, it documents a time in the nineteen sixties when powerful cultural and economic forces were revolutionising working-class youth culture. It is part of a 1964-5 series portraying the children of the Gorbals (a working-class district of Glasgow) which had been previously photographed in the late 1940s.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Joseph McKenzieScottish (1929 - 2015)
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title:Beatle Girl
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date created:1964 - 1965
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materials:Gelatin silver print
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measurements:30.20 x 24.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased from the photographer, 1987
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accession number:PGP 99.4
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Joseph McKenzie
Joseph McKenzie
Joseph McKenzie trained as a photographer whilst in the RAF, and became one of Britain's most prolific post-war practitioners. After his appointment as Lecturer in Photography at Duncan of Jordanstone College in 1964, he embarked on a series of ambitious documentary projects. McKenzie recorded the...