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Having studied photography in New York alongside Alexey Brodovitch, Richard Avedon and Bruce Davidson, Vandenberg became a successful commercial photographer and art director working in both New York and London during the 1960s. After a period of travelling, he settled in London in 1974 with the aim of using his photographic skills to create portraits of city life without a commercial agenda.\r\n\r\nVandenberg’s series <i>On a Good Day</i> documents a wide variety of Londoners. Although made on the street, the photographs are carefully posed with the subjects often placed against a wall. The people photographed present themselves head-on to the camera with confidence. Seen together, the series gives an idea of the communities that made up London and the urban styles of the era.\r\n\r\nThe V&amp;A acquired fifteen photographs from Al Vandenberg’s <i>On a Good Day</i> series as part of the Staying Power project. Staying Power is a five year partnership between the V&amp;A and Black Cultural Archives. The project aims to explore black British experience from the 1950s to the 1990s through photographs acquired by the V&amp;A and oral histories conducted by Black Cultural Archives.","physicalDescription":"Black and white photograph of three boys standing in a line, in descending height order. The tallest boy on the left-hand side wears a dark turtle neck jumper with a blazer over the top. The boy in the centre wears a cloth cap and a shirt with a wide collar. The shortest boy on the right-side wears a shearling jacket over his school uniform; he is white while the other two are black. 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He later settled in London,\r\nwhere he set out to document city life, combining street\r\nphotography with portraiture. He often used shopfronts\r\nand window displays as backdrops. Although the\r\nphotographs were made on the street, the subjects are\r\ncarefully posed and appear engaged in the process.\r\nGelatin silver prints (printed 2010)\n\r\nMuseum nos. E.423 to 426, 429, 431, 432, 434 to 436-2010","date":{"text":"16/02/2015 - 24/05/2015","earliest":"2015-02-16","latest":"2015-05-24"}}],"partNumbers":["E.435-2010"],"accessionNumberNum":"435","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2010,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-08","recordCreationDate":"2011-02-01","availableToBook":false}}