Street Football, Addison Place, W11
Roger Mayne British
Not on view
Like his elder American counterpart Helen Levitt, Mayne was greatly influenced by Cartier-Bresson's hair-trigger vision of city life while making his photographs of children at play in the mean streets
of London in the late 1950s. His grainy, dynamically composed pictures of pickup games, sidewalk ballet, and Teddy Boys and Mods on the prowl in bombed-out neighborhoods (declared uninhabitable and demolished by the end of the 1960s) were considered rude at the time but are now cherished by the British as bittersweet glimpses of a bygone era.
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