A group of coal searchers near Heworth, Tyneside; pithead train in the distance
- Title:
- A group of coal searchers near Heworth, Tyneside; pithead train in the distance
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Labor and Work
Inequality and legacies of discrimination
Landscape and the Environment
History of Photography - Creator:
- Brandt, Bill
- Creation Date:
- 1937
- ID Number:
- 2005.011.004
- File Name:
- 2005.011.004.jpg
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- Land-body relationship
laborers
Art and Photography
modernism
Heyworth
Tyneside
United Kingdom - Measurement:
- 25.4 x 20.3 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Very dark image of three figures - likely 2 unemployed miners and a child - atop a slag heap. In the foreground, a man is laying on his left side, and picking at the ground with his fingers, his capped head down. Next to him is a fabric bag stuffed about half full with several empty sacks next to it, and behind the bag are two other people both looking at the ground. The ground is rocky, and the edge of the pile can be seen cutting across the frame about a third from the top. Coming down from the top center of the frame to just above the edge of the heap is a dark linear mass, assumed to be the pithead train.
- Notes:
- Matted gelatin silver print
One of a group of photographs Brandt took of coal miners in the English countryside. - Cite As:
- Bill Brandt (British, 1904–1983), A group of coal searchers near Heworth, Tyneside; pithead train in the distance, 1937. Gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm). Gift of Donald J. Weiss, Class of 1965, and Alison Weiss, 2005.011.004.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
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