Per Annum

Title (Dublin Core): Per Annum
Type (Dublin Core): Photograph
Medium (Dublin Core): gelatin silver prints
Description (Dublin Core): 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.
Creator (Dublin Core): John Havinden
Date (Dublin Core): 1936 (photographed)
Coverage (Dublin Core): Surrealist
Subject (Dublin Core): geometric shape
Provenance (Dublin Core): Given by Dorothy Bohm 1998
References (Dublin Core): https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O102534/per-annum-photograph-havinden-john/