Dannie Abse
© George Newson. All rights reserved 2023 / Bridgeman Images
Dannie Abse
by George Newson
bromide fibre print, 29 September 1989
8 3/4 in. x 8 3/4 in. (223 mm x 223 mm)
Purchased, 1990
Photographs Collection
NPG x35738
Sitterback to top
- Dannie Abse (1923-2014), Poet; doctor; author and playwright. Sitter in 3 portraits.
Artistback to top
- George Newson (1932-2024), Composer and photographer. Artist or producer of 57 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (sitter's home, Golders Green, London)
Events of 1989back to top
Current affairs
96 people are crushed to death at the Hillsborough football stadium in Sheffield. The accident took place when Liverpool fans were all let into the stadium at once. Incoming crowds crushed people against a fence used to prevent pitch-invasions. Following the Taylor Report into the incident standing terraces and fences between fans and pitch were banned.Art and science
Following the publication of Anglo-Indian writer Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses in 1988, the leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, announces that the book is 'blasphemous against Islam' and places a fatwah (death sentence) on Rushdie, who is forced into hiding for several years.International
The Berlin Wall is dismantled, reunifying East and West Germany and symbolising the end of the Cold War. Following a decision to allow East Berliners to cross the border with valid visas, crowds swarmed the border crossings. Guards soon gave up trying to stop them, and the physical dismantlement of the wall soon began.Approximately 2,000 Chinese demonstrators are massacred in Tiananmen Square while protesting against the government.
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