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Queen's Jubilee festival sports day. Tintern, Wales

HURN David

It’s the summer of 1977 and a group of children are having a wheelbarrow race on the grass outside of Tintern abbey. This sports day was held to mark the Queen’s silver jubilee, in June. Maybe they were there to celebrate the royal family, or perhaps just to have a day of fun with friends - it doesn’t really matter. We can sense the children's bubbling excitement in this photograph.

David Hurn is a documentary photographer from Wales. He is famous for his photographs of daily life - ordinary people doing ordinary things.

Queen's Jubilee festival sports day. Tintern, Wales
Image: © David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
For any licensing and reproduction use of this image, please contact Magnum Photos: licensingall@magnumphotos.com
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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 55864

Creation/Production

HURN David
Date: 1977 –

Acquisition

Gift, 25/4/2017
Donated by David Hurn, 2017

Measurements

h(cm) image size:28.8
h(cm)
w(cm) image size:43.3
w(cm)
h(cm) paper size:43.1
w(cm) paper size:55.8

Techniques

Digital Pigment Print

Material

Paper

Location

In store

Categories

Ffotograff | Photograph Gweithiau ar bapur | Works on paper Celf Gain | Fine Art Chwaraeon | Sport Gwyliau a Dathliadau | Festivals and Celebrations Plentyn | Child Abaty | Abbey CADP content Artistiaid y 21ain ganrif | Active in the 21st Century
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