About this artwork
Fay Godwin is known for her black and white photographs of the British countryside. Her works document the traces of human occupation on land, both past and present. Godwin explained: ‘There is virtually no landscape in Britain that has not been worked, affected by human use, and this is what particularly interests me’. This is one of a series of 34 photographs from Godwin’s project Whisky roads of Scotland (1982). The subject of the study was the whisky industry in the northeast of the country. This photograph shows the site of an old iron ore mine on the north edge of the Cairngorm National Park. It borders an old trail used in the 17th and 18th centuries by whisky smugglers in order to evade oppressive tax regulations from London
Published September 2022
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artist:Fay Godwin (1931 - 2005) English
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title:Stone industrial buliding on the Lecht
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date created:About 1982
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materials:Gelatin silver print
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measurements:27.70 x 27.70 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1986
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accession number:PGP 89.18
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gallery:
Fay Godwin
Fay Godwin
Fay Godwin first became interested in photography in the mid-1960s as a result of taking pictures of her young children. Alongside early portrait work, she developed a sophisticated landscape practice, often collaborating closely with writers to produce in depth surveys of particular rural topics...