Nick Hedges
"Cathy" (Shelter photograph), 1972
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
12.7 x 17.78 cms
5 x 7 ins
10532
Exhibitions
'The English at Home: 20th Century Photographs from The Hyman Collection' at the Centre for British Photography, London (26 January - 28 May 2023)Literature
Paul Hill (forward by Aaron Scharf), Approaching Photography, Focal Press, 1982 (Illustrated p.120). Titled there Mother and baby (Madonna and child) and dated 1971.
Nick Hedges photographs for the housing charity Shelter were taken between 1968 and 1972. The charity was launched in December 1966 to highlight poverty and lack of proper housing. The...
Nick Hedges photographs for the housing charity Shelter were taken between 1968 and 1972. The charity was launched in December 1966 to highlight poverty and lack of proper housing. The charity produced reports, advertising campaigns and posters. Hedges' photographs of poverty in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Bradford and London played a significant role in exposing the terrible conditions faced by as many as three million people in Britain at that time.
The present photograph has a typed label on the reverse that explains: " 'Cathy' a young mother with her husband and baby son living in a damp cellar flat in a Liverpool slum. Her story is featured in 'Condemned' Shelter's report on housing and poverty (p.23).
Verso also stamped "SHELTER photograph by NICK HEDGES" and stamped with the date "21 Feb 1972"
The present photograph has a typed label on the reverse that explains: " 'Cathy' a young mother with her husband and baby son living in a damp cellar flat in a Liverpool slum. Her story is featured in 'Condemned' Shelter's report on housing and poverty (p.23).
Verso also stamped "SHELTER photograph by NICK HEDGES" and stamped with the date "21 Feb 1972"
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