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Title
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Type
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Photograph
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Description
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John Havinden was one of London's leading commercial photographers of the 1930s. He used this image for his trade calendar in 1936, the year that the International Surrealist Exhibition was held in London. It shows the combined influence on his work of Surrealism and the modernist design aesthetic. The abstract composition is based on formal, geometric elements but rendered mysterious by the atmospheric background and dramatic lighting.
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Creator
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John Havinden
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Date
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1936 (photographed)
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Provenance
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Given by Dorothy Bohm 1998
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Rights
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© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
