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Wolf Suschitzky: Charing Cross Road in the 1930s
from 28 September to 01 October 2004
- Project Type: Exhibition
- Email: a.o-neill@csm.arts.ac.uk
- Statement:
Alistair O'Neill curated this exhibition as part of the Fashion and Modernity project. It was one of a series of events and exhibitions on the Charing Cross Road that acted as an enquiry into the construction of the present, fashioned from an excavation of the past. The exhibition reconsidered the Viennese émigré photographer Wolf Suschitzky’s images of life on the Charing Cross Road in the 1930s, and analysed them through the perspective of fashion as a social agent of metropolitan change. It included over sixty photographs which included some vintage prints paired with a number of explanatory wall texts, including an essay by the late historian Raphael Samuel. Working in close consultation with the photographer, O'Neill also selected a number of photographs for exhibition that had never before been printed or exhibited. The exhibition thereby enabled a re-evaluation of this photographer’s work at a late period in his life (in his 90s at the time). Furthermore, the new photographic evidence suggested that trade on the Charing Cross road in the 1930s was as much about clothing as it was about bookselling.
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View publication(s):
- London: After a Fashion
- Imaging Fashion
