{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1225389"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1225389/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2013GC9810/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2013GC9810/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2013GC9810","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Fabian Knierim","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O1225389/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1225389","accessionNumber":"E.264-2011","objectType":"Photograph","titles":[{"title":"Notting Hill Couple","type":"assigned by artist"}],"summaryDescription":"Charlie Phillips moved to London from Jamaica in 1956 and began to document life in his local community, taking photographs with a Kodak brownie camera he had been given by a black American serviceman. Phillips lived in Notting Hill, an area of London which had a large British  Caribbean community following mass migration from the Caribbean in the immediate post-war period. \r\n\r\nHis personal photographs of local people take on the political issues of the time. This couple’s connection to the Notting Hill area recalls the eruption of racial hostility there less than a decade earlier, when groups of white youths sought to divide Notting Hill’s mixed-race community in a series of violent attacks. The events became known as the Notting Hill race riots (1958), and were thought to have been started when a group of white men assaulted a white woman on the basis of her marriage to a black man.\r\n\r\nThe V&A acquired ten photographs by Charlie Phillips as part of the Staying Power project. Staying Power is a five year partnership between the V&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&A and oral histories conducted by Black Cultural Archives.","physicalDescription":"A black and white photograph a mixed race couple. A young black man wears a suit jacket over a pullover with a shirt and has his arm around a white female wearing a jumper. Their heads touch in the middle of the image. Behind them is floral wallpaper giving way to a wooden wall. The sitters in this photograph are Anita Santiago and Osmond (Gus) Philip - Notting Hill couple. ","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Phillips, Charlie","id":"AUTH317119"},"association":{"text":"Photographer","id":"x43821"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"photographic paper","id":"AAT14190"}],"techniques":[{"text":"gelatin silver process","id":"AAT139114"},{"text":"photography","id":"AAT54225"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Gelatin silver print","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"},{"text":"Interiors","id":"THES48933"},{"text":"Black History","id":"THES48989"},{"text":"African Diaspora","id":"THES48873"},{"text":"Caribbean","id":"THES286921"}],"styles":[{"text":"documentary","id":"x37881"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2013GC9810"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"SP","shelf":"4","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Notting Hill","id":"x35687"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1967","earliest":"1967-01-01","latest":"1967-12-31"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"E.259-2011","id":"O1225394"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"E.260-2011","id":"O1225393"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"E.261-2011","id":"O1225392"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"E.262-2011","id":"O1225391"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"E.263-2011","id":"O1225390"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"E.265-2011","id":"O1225388"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"E.266-2011","id":"O1225387"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"E.267-2011","id":"O1225386"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"E.268-2011","id":"O1225385"},"association":""}],"creditLine":"Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. ","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"212","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"image size","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"300","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"image size","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"302","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"paper size","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"399","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"paper size","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"The V&A acquired this photograph as part of the Staying Power project. Staying Power is a five year partnership between the V&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&A and oral histories conducted by Black Cultural Archives.\r\n\r\nThe sitters in this photograph are Anita Santiago and Osmond (Gus) Philip - Notting Hill couple. ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Black and white photograph of Anita Santiago and Osmond (Gus) Philip by Charlie Phillips, 'Notting Hill Couple', gelatin silver print, London, 1967","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Roots to Reckoning; the photography of Armet Francis, Neil Kenlock and Charlie Phillips, London : Seed Publications, 2005","id":"AUTH317063"},"details":"","free":"Image appears on page 68"},{"reference":{"text":"Phillips, Charlie and Mike Phillips. Notting Hill in the Sixties. London: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd, 1991, ISBN 0 85315 751 0","id":"AUTH317064"},"details":"","free":"Image appears on page 13"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Notting Hill","id":"x35687"}],"associatedPlaces":[{"text":"Notting Hill","id":"x35687"}],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"woman","id":"AAT25943"},{"text":"man","id":"AAT25928"},{"text":"married couples","id":"x37549"},{"text":"wallpaper","id":"AAT37366"}],"contentConcepts":[{"text":"racial politics","id":"x39396"}],"contentLiteraryRefs":["",""],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Text label for the exhibition, 'Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience, 1950s-1990s\n16 February – 24 May 2015\n\nCharlie Phillips (born 1944)\r\nPortobello Road, 1974\r\nWestbourne Park Tube Station, 1967\r\nNotting Hill Couple, 1967\r\nThe Pisshouse Pub, 1969\r\nBig Maybelle, Cue Club, 1966\r\nCue Club Regulars, 1966\n\r\nPhillips moved from Jamaica to Notting Hill in 1956.\r\nThis area of London had a large Caribbean community\r\nfollowing mass migration after the Second World War.\r\nPhillips documented local life using a Kodak Brownie\r\ncamera that he had been given by an African-American\r\nserviceman. His photographs provide a visual record of the\r\ninfluence of the growing black population on this part of\r\nLondon during the 1960s and ’70s.\n\r\nGelatin silver prints\r\nMuseum nos. E.260, 261, 264, 266 to 268-2011","date":{"text":"16/02/2015-24/05/2015","earliest":"2015-02-16","latest":"2015-05-24"}}],"partNumbers":["E.264-2011"],"accessionNumberNum":"264","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2011,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-08","recordCreationDate":"2011-07-12","availableToBook":false}}