Montage of photographs demonstrating how poor sanitation, diet, living and working conditions cause ill health: images include slum dwellings, an outside toilet, factories, classrooms, unemployed men and two children - one healthy the other undernourished
| RIBApix ref no |
RIBA36153 |
| Architect/Designer | Goldfinger, Erno (1902-1987)
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| Country | UK: England |
| Subject Date | 1943 |
| Image Date | 1943 |
| Medium | Photomechanical print |
| Library Reference | PB699/1(2) |
| Orientation | Portrait |
| Colour / B&W |
Black and white |
| Credit |
RIBA Collections
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| Notes |
NOTES:
During World War II Erno Goldfinger presented his vision of the reconstruction of a post war Britain in a series of exhibitions mounted for the Army Bureau of Current Affairs (A.B.C.A.). In the 1943 ABCA exhibition entitled 'Health' Goldfinger proposed a blueprint for improved housing, sanitation, working conditions, schools and diet. The image shown here was intended for use on an exhibition display board.
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Subject tags
housing, factories, workers, children, bathrooms, plumbing, human figure, classrooms