In Tate Modern
- Artist
- Horacio Coppola 1906–2012
- Medium
- Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 204 × 144 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Tate Members 2013 and forming part of Eric and Louise Franck London Collection
- Reference
- P80306
Display caption
Coppola’s photographic series London documents street life in the city during 1934. Various vendors, artists, and bystanders are featured. The person depicted here is appealing to the charity of passers-by through the use of a gramophone or record player. Coppola’s photograph indicates the widespread use of the modern device (invented in 1887), and the reproduction of popular music in London streets.
Gallery label, January 2022
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