Poverty for Sale: Edith Tudor Hart in Britain

Introduction 
Shirley Read (Editor)
Curator, Writer and Photography Historian

Every Day a War: Economic Hardship on London’s Streets
Beate Pittnauer, Editor, Archivo Papers Journal

Edith Suschitzky and the Bauhaus
Elizabeth Otto, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, State University of New York

Political Exile in 1930s London
Merilyn Moos, Writer and formerly Lecturer in Sociology, London Metropolitan University

Tearing Down the Facade: Lawn Road Flats
Daria Santini, Writer - Biography of Edith Tudor Hart (Yale University Press - forthcoming)

The Isokon Christmas Card
Mike Crawford, Photographer and specialist photographic printer

Art in the Service of Social Change: Edith Tudor Hart and Pearl Binder
Lou Taylor (Professor Emerita, University of Brighton) and Julia Winckler (Principal Lecturer, School of Art and Media, University of Brighton)

Studio Portrait: A British Socialist, German Refugee Family
Rachel Dickson, Consultant Editor, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, London

Word and Image
James Hyman, Founding Director, The Centre for British Photography

The Essential Quality of Movement
Sian Macfarlane, Senior Lecturer in Photography, Manchester Metropolitan University

Grete Stern, Tudor Hart and the South London Hospital
Rachel Rosin, Department of Drawings, Prints and Curatorial Affairs, MoMA

Disability Through Edith’s Lens
Emery Walshe, Writer and Researcher, Hundred Heroines

On Baths of Sun, Air and Water
Tania Anne Cleaves, Art Historian and Author

Art Against War and Fascism
Robert Radford, Art Historian and Author

Some Notes on Edith Tudor Hart
Zelda Cheatle, Curator, Author and Consultant

Edith Tudor Hart: The First One-Woman Show
Jenny Wilson, previously Exhibition Organiser, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

Social Realism and Edith Tudor Hart
Larry Ray, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Kent

Dialectical Images and the Shadows of Surrealism
Drew Milne, Judith E Wilson Professor of Poetics, University of Cambridge

Edith Tudor Hart’s Scrapbook
Stefanie Pirker, Curator, Fotohof Salzburg

Edith Tudor Hart
Photographs

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Brings significant new insights and foregrounds extensive source material, along with her photographs, making this book essential reading.
Dr Michael Pritchard, British Photographic History.

A powerful collection of images and essays by leading photography specialists providing an invaluable insight into the life and work Edith Tudor Hart. A self-styled 'photo-reporter', who harnessed her medium to the expression of her radical politics, Tudor Hart's work has long merited in-depth appraisal. This collection constitutes a belated documentation of her important photographic contribution and her often tragic life.
Amanda Hopkinson, Senior Fellow, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, UEA and Visiting Professor, Centre of Translation and Intercultural Studies, Manchester University.

Through a series of concise multi-perspectival critical essays, this beautifully produced volume makes a compelling case for Tudor Hart, not just as pioneer of photography as a tool for social change but for her empathetic portrayal of childhood and disability, an inclusiveness that resonates today in debates around health, welfare and creativity. While the book explores the importance of observation and the construction of image in Tudor Hart’s work, it also proposes her subjects as active agents themselves, anticipating photography as collaborative and co-creative practice and its potential for communal renewal.
Dr. Bryan Biggs, Director of Cultural Legacies, Bluecoat, Liverpool.

Excellent... a comprehensive discussion of Edith Tudor Hart’s life and photographic practices and a useful reminder of the power of activism through art.
Pam Meecham, Professor Emerita, Culture, Communication & Media, UCL, University of London

Pages: 292
Illustrations: over 200
Size: 265 x 200 mm 
Date: 2024
Editions: £45 [paperback] | £35 [eBook]
ISBN: 978-1-912528-45-5 [paperback]