inscribed in black pen (on reverse) u.l.: Young Smokers, Southam St, 1956 / North Kensington inscribed in pencil (on reverse) u.l.: VINTAGE PRINT C ' 60 artist stamp in ink (on reverse) c.: PHOTOGRAPH / BY / ROGER MAYNE inscribed in pen c.: I M 8 inscribed in pencil (on reverse) l.c.: Roger Mayne '56
“There are two kinds of photographs. There's the decisive moment and there's the contrived photograph and I think contrived photography has come back rather. But the kind of photography I like is the decisive moment, and I think the power of photography is in this. I think - to paraphrase Susan Sontag - the fascination of photography is as a trace of an event that has actually happened.”
Roger Mayne