Children in a Bombed Building
1954
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 26.8 x 38 cm (10 9/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2001.67.141
Art Historical Context
**Children in a Bombed Building** (1954) by British photographer Roger Mayne offers a poignant glimpse into post-World War II London, where the scars of the Blitz lingered amid everyday life. Captured nearly a decade after the war's end, the gelatin silver print depicts children navigating the rubble of a bombed-out structure, evoking the resilience of youth in Britain's austere reconstruction era. Mayne, renowned his gritty street photography of London's rundown districts like Notting Hill, documented the human spirit amid urban decay, making this image a powerful testament to the era's socia...