In the Shadow of Tyranny Edith Tudor-Hart
2013; Royal College of General Practitioners; Volume: 63; Issue: 610 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3399/bjgp13x667312
ISSN1478-5242
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
ResumoScottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, 2 March–26 May 2013 In the Shadow of Tyranny , an exhibition of Edith Tudor-Hart’s photography, celebrates the life as well as the work of an intrepid voyeur and rumoured Soviet agent, and a marvellous photographer. Born Edith Suschitzky in 1908 and raised as a radical socialist, her early pictures reflected the interwar paradoxes of her hometown ‘Red’ Vienna, lamenting mass unemployment while extolling working-class solidarity. An evident concern for widespread poverty contrasts with a celebration of successful social endeavours like municipal leisure facilities and housing projects. Images of May Day celebrations exemplify the working-class vigour of 1920s Vienna, and a rendering of the ‘Karl-Marx-Hof’, an imposing housing estate built by …
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