Kurt Hutton
Joe at "The Silver Lady's Kitchen" (from "They had no Work"), 1938
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
25.3 x 18.9 cms
9 15/16 x 7 7/16 ins
Series: 3. The Silver Lady's Kitchen. Poverty and Unemployment
11774
Literature
"They had no Work", Picture Post, 14 January 1939, vol 2. no. 2, pp.50-52 (illustrated)
The 14th January 1939 issue of Picture Post magazine included a feature on unemployment entitled 'They Had No Work'. For this article Kurt Hutton took a number of photographs at...
The 14th January 1939 issue of Picture Post magazine included a feature on unemployment entitled "They Had No Work". For this article Kurt Hutton took a number of photographs at the Silver Lady's Kitchen in Trafalgar Square, London, where proprietor Betty Baxter (nicknamed 'The Silver Lady' for her donations of a silver sixpence to her many patrons) offered a free meal to the area's homeless.
This is one of a group of strikingly dramatic character studies of the people there, beautifully lit as though by candle or lamp-light. It was part of a featufre in Picture Post that gave a human face to poverty and unemployment.
In Picture Post this work is reproduced reverse as the far left image of a spread of four close-ups of me, presumabky as it worked better on the page to have him looking inwards. It is captioned with the subjects name and with some biographical information:
"Joe was in the Dockyard. "Joe" (he didn't seem to care about his other name) worked in the dockyard in Cardiff. He left there nine months ago; came to London. He had three and a half years in France."
This is one of a group of strikingly dramatic character studies of the people there, beautifully lit as though by candle or lamp-light. It was part of a featufre in Picture Post that gave a human face to poverty and unemployment.
In Picture Post this work is reproduced reverse as the far left image of a spread of four close-ups of me, presumabky as it worked better on the page to have him looking inwards. It is captioned with the subjects name and with some biographical information:
"Joe was in the Dockyard. "Joe" (he didn't seem to care about his other name) worked in the dockyard in Cardiff. He left there nine months ago; came to London. He had three and a half years in France."