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The Viennese-born snapper who recorded social injustice in Britain

JL;DR SUMMARY Edith Tudor Hart, a Jewish Viennese-born photographer, became one of Britain's notable documenters of social injustice from the 1930s. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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BauhausEspionagePhotographyDocumentary PhotographyEdith Tudor HartSocial InjusticeJewish VienneseCommunist PoliticsCambridge Spy RingSocial Democratic

Places mentioned

Vienna, Austria
"Too few people know of Edith Tudor Hart. Born into a Jewish Viennese family in 1908, she was a gifted and dedicated photographer."
Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
"Born into a Jewish Viennese family in 1908, she was a gifted and dedicated photographer who studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau."
London, United Kingdom
"Economic hardship on Londons streets describes how Tudor Hart presents herself as a documenter of Londons pavement trade."
Little Venice, London, United Kingdom
"Wolf and I became friends, meeting regularly and lunching on the canal boat restaurant below his flat in Little Venice."

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