Exhibition
Edith Tudor-Hart: Quiet Radicalism
2 Mar 2013 – 4 May 2013
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 19 Mann Island
- Liverpool Waterfront
- Liverpool
- L31BP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The nearest bus station is at Liverpool ONE, but some buses drop off at the Pier Head, right next door to the gallery. Merseytravel has details of local bus services.
- By train We are 20 minutes walk from Lime Street station ' Liverpool's mainline railway station. James Street station, served by Wirral Line trains, is a two minute walk. Moorfields station, served by the Northern and Wirral Lines, is a five minute w
About
Austrian born Edith Tudor-Hart (1908 ' 1973) was a photographer, communist-sympathiser and spy for the Soviet Union, who used photography as a tool to communicate her political ideas. She studied photography at the Bauhaus and fled Vienna in 1933 to escape persecution for Communist activities and her Jewish background.Tudor-Hart's exhibition will take place in the Archive Gallery alongside Mishka Henner's exhibition, and is culled from Open Eye's extraordinary holding of Tudor-Hart's images in its permanent Archive. The exhibition focuses on several key periods in Tudor-Hart's practice: Aerial and street-view scenes document political upheaval in Vienna prior to Tudor-Hart's departure for England; the industrial landscapes and working life of Rhondda Valley's coal mining community in South Wales; and the care and education of disabled children at the previous Fountain Hospital in London.
The exhibition encapsulates the social and political concerns at the centre of Tudor-Hart's practice, playing tribute to an incredible and almost forgotten photographer whose work warrants serious reflection.