The Last of the Real High Streets: The Bookbox - Bookshop
Object
Photograph
Production date
10/2010
Object number
2023.9
Physical Description
Print of a photo of two women and a child outside of a blue bookshop. The woman on the left is carrying the child in her arms. They are stood next to a chalk sandwich board with writing on it. Part of a photo series by Colin O'Brien.
Object history
In 2010, photographer Colin O'Brien exhibited a collection of images at Chats Palace, an arts centre and theatre in Hackney. The exhibition showed photographs of people and the shops they worked at, owned or visited on Chatsworth Road.
O'Brien documented the changing shops and communities on Chatsworth Road - as well as Hackney in general - during his expansive career as a photographer.
The exhibition ran from 8th October to 27th November 2010.
O'Brien documented the changing shops and communities on Chatsworth Road - as well as Hackney in general - during his expansive career as a photographer.
The exhibition ran from 8th October to 27th November 2010.
The shop featured in this photo is The Bookbox, a bookshop selling books for both adults and children. In this image, the shop is at 53 Chatsworth Road. The shop has also been located at 68 Chatsworth Road. The owners used to live above the shop. Before it was a bookshop it had been both a barbers and Vanderbilt, the butchers.
Associated Organisation
Chats Palace (Featured)
Associated Person
Colin O'Brien (Photographer)
Associated Place
Chatsworth Road (Place)
Material
photo
Dimension
Length: 482mm
Width: 329mm
Width: 329mm
Credit line
ⓒ Colin O'Brien, 2010.
On display?
No
Inscription
The Book Box
53
Tel: 020 XXXX XXX
Studio 53
Now Open
53
Tel: 020 XXXX XXX
Studio 53
Now Open
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