Chris Killip
Youth on Wall, Jarrow, Tyneside, UK

Youth on Wall, Jarrow, Tyneside, UK

© Chris Killip

Youth on Wall, Jarrow, Tyneside, UK
Youth on Wall, Jarrow, Tyneside, UK
ArtistBritish, 1946–2020
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Youth on Wall, Jarrow, Tyneside, UK
Date1976, printed 1988
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 7/8 × 13 3/8 in. (27.6 × 34 cm)
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (40.4 × 50.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mark L. Tompkins, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1435
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Chris Killip photographed the working classes of the North of England. Focusing on the industrial and mining regions hit hardest by the economic upheaval of the Margaret Thatcher years, he pictured people caught in a system that neglected them. All of the anxiety, vulnerability, aggression, and depression felt by those left behind seem concentrated in this one young man whom Killip photographed in the no-longer-thriving coal, steel, and shipbuilding region east of Newcastle.



ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by Manfred Heiting, October 22, 1985; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"British Photography from the Thatcher Years", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1990.

"Public Dress," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 19 June - 8 October, 2012.

“Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 9–May 4, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed and dated in pencil, verso: Chris Killip 1988
Signed and dated in pencil, verso: Chris Killip 1988

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