This filmed interview was recorded at Wolf’s home in Maida Vale, between December 2014 and February 2015. He tells of his pioneering approach to photographing children from the 1930’s until recently, of his many publications on the subject and the influence on him of his sister, the brilliant social documentary photographer Edith Tudor Hart.
“I enjoy all photography. My approach is to ‘find’ photographs – to observe things, not arrange them.”
wolf suschitzky photos presents a retrospective of 70 years photography with more than 160 pictures on 200 pages. The introduction An Optimist in Life by Erich Lessing, the well known Magnum photographer and friend of Wolf, is followed by an essay from Anna Auer, President of the European Society of the History of Photography and the article Wolf Suschitzky in Vienna and London: Photographic Exchange and Continuity by Duncan Forbes, curator of Scottish National Photography Collection, Edinburgh. Also included is a very short autobiography of a long lived photographer.
