Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
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Gift Eric and Louise Franck London Collection 2013, accessioned 2018
<p><span>Untitled</span> 1961 is a black and white photograph that depicts four men on a London street, one of whom leans against a partially visible vehicle. Another man wears a check shirt and sports a quiff, an indication of his identification with the youth culture of the era. Both he and the figure on the left of the composition have their shirt sleeves rolled up to the elbow and appear to be chatting with each other, while an older man looks on. In contrast, a fourth man with his back to the viewer appears to be striding purposefully past the group sporting a dark suit and bowler hat. The composition of the photograph and the attire of the figures depicted capture a sense of class divisions as they were articulated in early 1960s Britain.</p>
paper print photograph gelatin silver
Untitled
image: 290 × 390 mm
Gift Eric and Louise Franck London Collection 2013, accessioned 2018
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<i>Untitled</i> 1961 is a black and white photograph that depicts four men on a London street, one of whom leans against a partially visible vehicle. Another man wears a check shirt and sports a quiff, an indication of his identification with the youth culture of the era. Both he and the figure on the left of the composition have their shirt sleeves rolled up to the elbow and appear to be chatting with each other, while an older man looks on. In contrast, a fourth man with his back to the viewer appears to be striding purposefully past the group sporting a dark suit and bowler hat. The composition of the photograph and the attire of the figures depicted capture a sense of class divisions as they were articulated in early 1960s Britain.</p>
<p>Lutz Dille was born in Leipzig, Germany. He began an apprenticeship with a photographer upon leaving school, but was soon conscripted by the army to fight in the Second World War. Between 1947 and 1951, he attended photography courses at the Academy of Art in Hamburg. In 1951 he emigrated to Canada where, in 1958, a journalist at the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) saw a series of photographs that Dille had taken in Paris in 1951 and decided to animate them into a short film for television. This led to numerous freelance assignments for the CBC over many years, and allowed Dille the freedom, between commissions, to travel and take photographs throughout Europe, the States and Latin America. By the late 1960s he was working in film as well as photography, particularly in the area of social documentary. Dille returned to Europe in 1980, living in Wales until 1985, where he taught filmmaking at Newport College of Art, Gwent. He then moved to the south of France, where he lived until his death in 2006.</p>
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<b>Further reading</b>
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<a href="https://homework.tate.org.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/tP8N8Js1Wj/LIBRARY/175430006/18/X246/XTITLE/,DanaInfo=.atcAxrnivzw+On+the+street+:+photographs+of+the+1950s+and+1960s+by+Lutz+Dille"><i>On the Street: Photographs of the 1950s and 1960s by Lutz Dille</i></a><i>,</i> exhibition catalogue, Städtisches Museum Braunschweig 2004.</p>
<p>Helen Delaney<br/>January 2015</p>
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