Blackfriars Rail Bridge

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for Transport, Great Minster House, Marsham Street

David Trace was born in Cardiff, where he attended Canton High School for Boys. A painter, sculptor and photographer, Trace took thousands of photographs in the London borough of Lambeth, between the early 1960s and the late 1990s in collaboration with the Minet Library. During the 1970s, he also documented London’s Camden Lock, where he had a studio. Trace died in London in 2006 and his friends and relatives have created a blog which records some of his photographic achievements, including his portraits of Welsh artist Jeffrey Steele (who also has work in the Government Art Collection) and 1960s English poet Jeff Nuttall.

Places

England, London

Subjects

railway, topography, river, bridge (urban), archway, column, pillar (architectural feature)

Materials & Techniques

photograph (as object name), black & white photograph

Artist

David Trace (1937 - 2006)

Title

Blackfriars Rail Bridge

Date

Medium

Black and white photograph

Dimensions

height: 20.50 cm, width: 24.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the photographer, January 1978

GAC number

13740