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Lot 1035
Kurt Hutton (1893 - 1960), gelatin silver print - 'Care Free', Southend 1949, in glazed frame, inscribed verso, 17.5cm x 19cm NB. In his autobiography, Kurt Hutton writes in detail about this photograph: "Fair pictures can be very disappointing. Probably because so much of the atmosphere of a fair is a deliberately calculated effect, meant to get to work on human senses and not on the hard, unwinking stare of a lens. The glitter is bogus and all that is real about a fair are a number of hard-working people who are shrewd and very skilful about their jobs. There is no reason why one should not try to photograph that glitter, but it hardly ever comes off and the fun of the fair escapes - unless it is caught as it is reflected in people's faces. The photograph nearly drove me mad. The editor asked for some pictures of Southend fun fair, so I roamed all over the place and took an endless number of photos. Then the editor said: 'They're no good. I don't want to a series. I need one striking picture.' Southend seemed a long way to go again...so I went to Hampstead Heath. To make sure I took a pretty model with me. This time the editor said the photos were all right, but the girl was modelish - not really full of life, joy and laughter. 'Well,' said the editor, 'get something on the caterpillar. You know the sort of thing. It's quite easy.' I felt like asking 'Is it?'...so the next day I set off for Southend with a young actress. The photographs were very nice. 'This is it,' said the editor. 'Only I'd much rather have two girls. And this girl is fine but she looks more like an Oxford undergraduate than the Southend type.' By now I was beginning to feel slightly irritable...Next morning I met the two girls I had chosen and found one presented no problems, but the other was far from faultless to photograph. As we neared Southend the storm broke...so we just waited. Eventually it did clear up and with a wind blowing at a somewhat rude angle and with the right side of my difficult model's face to the camera, I got my picture. An easy picture such as you might pick up with a bit of luck any fine day." The image was taken on October 8th 1938 and the original caption was 'Two young women enjoying themselves on a rollercoaster at Southend Fair'
Lot 1036
*Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887 - 1976), signed print - The Level Crossing, Burton On Trent, with Fine Art Guild blindstamp, in glazed frame, 45.5cm x 58cm CONDITION REPORT Faded overall, blindstamp lower left, hard to say if it has been stuck down. Signed in pencil lower right. The blindstamp is initialled D.K.B
Lot 1037
*Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887 - 1976), signed print - Children's Playground, inscribed from Lowry 'With Best Wishes', signed in pen, in glazed frame, inscribed verso, 51cm x 66cm CONDITION REPORT Signed and inscribed in ink which has lost its colour. The image is behind non-reflective glass so the colour is good. Appears not to be stuck down. No blind stamp
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