Open Arts Object: Catalogue - War Pictures at the National Gallery (1942)

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Dr Veronica Davies examines a catalogue produced for an exhibition of war artists' work at the National Gallery in 1942.

Steve Edwards, Russell Roberts, Gill Perry and Bettina Kaufmann, Q&A Session 1

Russell Roberts, Staged, Estranged, Candid and Observed: Mass-Observation & Photography  Russell Roberts looks at the ways that Mass-Observation engaged with photography during the 1930s and 40s, to understand social dynamics of the historical moment. The paper looks to specific applications of documentary realism in relation to urban space and more choreographed depictions of daily life from the street to the home to the place of work.

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