Helen and her hula-hoop, Seacoal Beach Camp, Lynemouth, Northumberland

Artist Chris Killip (Manx, 1946 - 2020)

Date1984; printed 2013

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 15 3/4 × 19 13/16 inches (40.01 × 50.32 cm)
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 23 3/4 inches (50.48 × 60.33 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2016.75.129

SignedSigned and dated on sheet verso, center, in pencil: "Chris Killip 2013"

InscribedInscribed and dated on sheet verso, center, in pencil: "Helen and her hoola-hoop, Seacoal Beach Camp, Lynemouth, North Cumberland 1984 / Chris Killip made this print on December 26 2013 on foma paper"

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DescriptionImage of young girl, surrounded by trash, spinning hoola-hoop around waist in a field beside the ocean.Gallery Label

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This image conveys a sense of life amid desolation, as a young girl plays with a hula hoop on a debris-strewn beach. Chris Killip began photographing the deindustrialized landscape of Northeast England in the mid-1970s. Killip’s raw, emotionally charged images pictured people struggling to survive “in a system which regards their lives as disposable.” He published his work in the influential book In Flagrante (1988). Though rooted in a documentary-style approach, Killip’s pictures are subjective views of people’s lives.

Provenance

Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.

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