Roger Mayne: Youth

14 Jun – 1 Sept 2024
Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries, Floor 3

Acclaimed British photographer Roger Mayne (1929–2014) was famous for his evocative documentary images of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s.

This exhibition, of around 60 almost exclusively vintage photographs, includes many of his iconic street images of children and teenagers, alongside an almost entirely unknown selection of intimate and moving later images of his own family at home in Dorset, as well as those taken on his honeymoon in Spain in 1962.

Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found it. This is the first exhibition of his work since 2017.

Please note this exhibition contains photographs of childbirth.

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14 Jun – 1 Sept 2024

10:00 – 18:00 (last entry 17:15)

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A black and white photo of a young boy diving towards a football — Roger Mayne (1929 - 2014), Goalie, Brindley Road 1956, Modern print (printed in 2002), 38 x 30cm, © The Roger Mayne Archive / Mary Evans Picture Library

Roger Mayne (1929 - 2014), Men and Boys, Southam Street,1959 © The Roger Mayne Archive / Mary Evans Picture Library

Roger Mayne (1929 - 2014), Three children at Nigel Henderson’s: Drusilla (Jo) and Justin Henderson, with a friend, Bethnal Green, 1953, Vintage gelatin silver print, 21 x 20cm, © The Roger Mayne Archive / Mary Evans Picture Library

A black and white photo of children standing in a bombed building — Roger Mayne (1929 - 2014), Children in a Bombed Building, Bermondsey , London, 1954, Vintage gelatin silver print, 28 x 19.5cm, © The Roger Mayne Archive / Mary Evans Picture Library

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