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ANNA FOX (born 1961)

Hampshire Village Play, 2003 (2003 Britain)

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Item Medium Description

Light jet print

Item Signed, Inscribed, Dated Details

Signed and dated by the artist

UK/USA Dimensions

29.00 inch wide   29.00 inch high

European Converted Dimensions

73.66 cm wide  73.66 cm high

Item Literature

Front cover of 2010 Deutsche Borse Prize Catalogue, Photographers' Gallery, 2010

Item Exhibition History

Deutsche Borse Prize, Photographers' Gallery, London, 2010

Item Description / Dealer Expertise

Hampshire Village Play
Matt light jet print archival
48.26 x 48.26 cms (18.97 x 18.97 ins)
2003
Also available in 29 x 29 in. size both in an edition of 5.

Anna Fox first gained attention for Work Stations: Office Life in London (1988), a study of office culture in Thatcher's Britain, originally commissioned by Camerawork and The Museum of London. He other projects have included The Village (1992), a multi-media collaboration with the writer Val Williams, examining the experiences of rural women, and Friendly Fire, which records the leisure activity of paint-balling in the manner of war reportage. Her projects have led her to the back alleys and underworlds of Britain, capturing tacit traditions and the 'behind-the-scenes' of those we think we know.

This image is from an ongoing series of colour portraits documenting the social fabric of villages in Hampshire, photographing rural events including fetes, Halloween festivities, Guy Falkes night and the village play. Originally inspired by at the photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone as he travelled around Britain recording customs and festivals in the 1900s, these new photographs observe how extraordinary the ritual of life in the countryside is. Currently 72 images in the whole series.

FOX
Type Artist/Maker
Country of origin Britain
Born 1961

Anna Fox is one of the most acclaimed British photographers of the last twenty-five years.

Working in colour, Fox first gained attention for Work Stations: Office Life in London (1988), a study of office culture in Thatcher's Britain, originally commissioned by Camerawork and The Museum of London.

She is best known for Zwarte Piet (1993-8), a series of twenty portraits taken over a five-year period that explore Dutch black-face' folk traditions associated with Christmas.

Other projects have included The Village (1992), a multi-media collaboration with the writer Val Williams, examining the experiences of rural women, and Friendly Fire, which records the leisure activity of paint-balling in the manner of war reportage.

More recent publications include Cockroach Diary and My Mother's Cupboards and My Father's Words (2000), which deal with autobiographical narratives and were designed as miniature, limited edition books.

A major monograph, Anna Fox Photographs 1983 - 2007, was published by Photoworks in 2007, the same year in which Fox was included in the Tate Gallery's major exhibition, How We Are. Photographing Britain.

Her most recent exhibition, Cockroach Diaries & Other Stories, opened at Impressions Gallery, Bradford in 2008 then toured to the Winchester Gallery and Ffotogallery, Cardiff, 2009. It showed autobiographic narratives that combined photographic evidence with frustrated diary entries.

A boxed set of photographs from her 41 Hewitt Road series is available through the gallery.
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James Hyman Photography specialises in vintage and contemporary photography with a focus on British social photography. In addition to British and International photographs from inventory, James Hyman represents a select group of photographers whose conceptual documentary practise emerged in the Thatcher years as forms of subjective engagement with the winners and losers in Thatcher’s transformation of British society.

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