Final Analysis

Paul Hill considers... Moving Softly, 1950, by Edith Tudor Hart

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With the current parliamentary debates, and acres of news coverage about child welfare benefits, I was attracted to a new book Poverty for Sale (MuseumsEtc) on the documentary work of Edith Tudor Hart (1908-1973), edited by Shirley Read.

I met Edith’s brother, Wolfgang Suschitzky, the renowned photographer and film cameraman, in the 1970s who showed me some photographs, mostly of children, by Edith. I do not think I had ever heard of her, and I must admit that I was more determined to find out about his role as director of photography on the film Get Carter (1971) than his sister's images.

Children’s health

Coincidentally, I recently came across