Event Item: 00269

Hoppé Portraits: Society, Studio and Street

Exhibition: 17th Feb 2011 to 30th May 2011

Source: http://www.npg.org.uk

Where: National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE.
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Extract: E.O. Hoppé is one of the most important photographers of the first half of the twentieth century. Celebrated during his lifetime, much of Hoppé's work has only recently been reassembled and this major survey will enable visitors to discover this forgotten master.

The exhibition brings together Hoppé's strikingly modernist portraits of important personalities including George Bernard Shaw, Margot Fonteyn and Vita Sackville-West and his fascinating photojournalist studies, which capture the realities of day-to-day life in Britain between the wars.

Further Information: Please see the National Portrait Gallery listing here