Evening street scene in Charing Cross Road c. 1935 27.120/1bf 198 x 129mm

198 x 129mm

View of room with many paintings hung on walls viewed by large crowd of men and women

buried princesses

the station was bombed in the Blitz of 1940 and largely destroyed

clowns and equestrians who performed at the circus during its month-long run

Evening street scene in Charing Cross Road c. 1935 27.120/1bf 198 x 129mmCharing Cross Road, c. 1935. Evening street scene outside Foyles book shop. Charing Cross Road is renowned for its specialist and second hand bookshops. Suschitzky was attracted by the extensive array of second hand bookshops and teahouses, and the crowds that flocked to them. The resulting series of photographs are amongst Suschitzky's most acclaimed work.