3 February
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23 April 2006
Section
1: Defining DocumentaryWolfgang Suschitzky b. 1912
Lyons Corner House, Tottenham Court Road
c.1934
© W. Suschitzky
Suschitzky was a Viennese émigré and part of an
exodus of photographic talent that came to Britain against a backdrop of rising
fascism in Europe. From 1937 he worked as a documentary cameraman for Paul
Rotha's Strand Film Company. Wherever he travelled he always carried a still
camera, producing a remarkable though less well known archive of documentary
images. The images displayed here focus on London life. Suschitzky's later
career as a cameraman included work for British Transport Films, the National
Coal Board Film Unit and also work on fictional feature films.