Tuesday 8 July
18.30
The Camera at Work:
Polly Toynbee in conversation with Mary Davis

	Unknown Women's Service Bureau Welding School, c1917 Courtesy: The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University

Women did most of the twentieth-century's unpaid or lowest paid work, but how much of it was documented? Polly Toynbee and Mary Davis examine the visibility of women's work in photographs and other visual media. Not long after the notorious photograph of 'Blair's babes' they also explore how women's increased presence within the public realm is visually represented.

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist and broadcaster and was formerly the BBC's social affairs editor. Her groundbreaking study of women’s work in Britain, A Working Life (1971), has recently been followed by Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britain (2003). Mary Davis is a historian and currently Deputy Director of Working Lives Research Unit at London Metropolitan University. The discussion will be chaired by Antonia Byatt, director of The Women’s Library.

The Camera at Work series explores historical, sociological and aesthetic issues related to the photographic representation of work. It coincides with Tate Modern’s major exhibition Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph. See Courses and Workshops and Films for related programmes.

A collaboration with The Work Foundation, in association with Prospect magazine

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£7 (£4 concessions)
Strictly no admission more than 15 minutes after the start of the event
For tickets call 020 7887 8888 or email ticketing@tate.org.uk

See also:
Artist's Talk: Philip-Lorca diCorcia Sunday 8 June
Artist's Talk: Rineke Dijkstra Tuesday 10 June
The Camera at Work: John Tagg in conversation with Steve Edwards Tuesday 24 June
Artist's Talk: Martin Parr Wednesday 25 June
On Looking at the Real Friday 27 June
The Camera at Work: Theodore Zeldin Tuesday 1 July
The Camera at Work: Richard Reeves in conversation with Anna Fox and Carey Young Tuesday 15 July

 
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