Street Football, Addison Place, W11
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.
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Street Football, Addison Place, W11
- Artist: Roger Mayne (British, Cambridge 1929–2014)
- Date: 1956, printed 1957
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 27.8 x 36.5 cm (10 15/16 x 14 3/8 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1990
- Object Number: 1990.1050.2
- Rights and Reproduction: © Roger Mayne Archive
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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