Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-quinn-21541" aria-label="More by Edward Quinn" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Edward Quinn</a>
Woman at Bus Stop
Gift Eric and Louise Franck London Collection 2015
<p>This group of four black and white photographs by Edward Quinn range from c.1940 to c.1960 (Tate P14691–P14693 and P14942). They depict everyday scenes of London life: one depicts a milkman doing his rounds with a hand-pulled milk float. <span>Car Park Attendant</span> shows a uniformed man standing in his place of work, while <span>Digging up the Street</span> depicts three men looking on while a fourth digs up the road alongside some shops. A later work, <span>Woman at a Bus Stop</span>, captures a young woman laden with bags waiting for her bus.</p>
paper print photograph gelatin silver
Woman at Bus Stop
image: 249 × 251 mm
Support: 397 × 298 mm
Gift Eric and Louise Franck London Collection 2015
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<p>This group of four black and white photographs by Edward Quinn range from c.1940 to c.1960 (Tate <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/quinn-woman-at-bus-stop-p14691" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P14691</span></a>–<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/quinn-milk-float-p14693" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P14693</span></a> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/quinn-car-park-attendant-p14942" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P14942</span></a>). They depict everyday scenes of London life: one depicts a milkman doing his rounds with a hand-pulled milk float. <i>Car Park Attendant</i> shows a uniformed man standing in his place of work, while <i>Digging up the Street</i> depicts three men looking on while a fourth digs up the road alongside some shops. A later work, <i>Woman at a Bus Stop</i>, captures a young woman laden with bags waiting for her bus. </p>
<p>Quinn was born in Ireland in 1920 and died in Switzerland in 1997. He is best known for his photographs of the Côte d’Azur in the South of France in the 1950s, when it was the favoured haunt of celebrities from the world of entertainment, art and business. He took photographs of people including Grace Kelly, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando and Maria Callas. Quinn also started photographing Pablo Picasso in 1951, with the pair forging an intense friendship that lasted until Picasso’s death in 1973. His photographs of London are less well known and this group of four illuminates this aspect of his practice, in contrast to his work associated with the French Riviera, which focuses instead on the everyday life of an evolving city.</p>
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<b>Further reading</b>
<br/>Heinx Bütler and Gret Quinn (eds.) in collaboration with the Edward Quinn Archive, <i>Edward Quinn: Riviera Cocktail</i>, Kempen 2011.</p>
<p>Helen Delaney<br/>November 2014</p>
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