Karl Pollak
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Karl Pollak
by Unknown student of Karl Pollak
bromide print, circa 1969
10 1/8 in. x 6 1/4 in. (256 mm x 159 mm) overall
Purchased, 1969
Photographs Collection
NPG x14997
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- Karl Pollak (1902-1983), Photographer. Sitter in 2 portraits, Artist or producer of 64 portraits.
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The Open University is established, based on the vision of Michael Young. Its aims were to offer the chance to study for higher education qualifications on a part time and distance learning basis, giving people who were unable to attend a traditional university because of family, work commitments or disability the opportunity to achieve university degrees.Art and science
The comedy sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus is first broadcast. The Pythons performed surreal sketches that reinvented the comedy tradition, eschewing punch lines for a stream-of-consciousness structure and incongruous authorial interventions: 'and now for something completely different'.Kenneth Tynan's Oh! Calcutta amuses and shocks audiences with full nudity on stage, taking advantage of the recent end to censorship laws.
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Neil Armstrong takes 'one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind' when he becomes the first man on the moon.Concorde makes its first supersonic flight. The plane was designed, developed and manufactured by a joint treaty between the French and English governments.
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Paul Lewzey
11 August 2022, 19:05
The photographer is John Hill, my granddad. Pollak asked his class to take a photo of him, he would choose the one to be used as part of an exhibition of his own work at the Austrian Portrait Gallery. My Granddad is ecstatic that his portrait is still able to be seen and still has the negatives and proofs under the bed!
Christopher John Hill
12 August 2022, 09:11
This was by my father Mr.John Charles Hill a nightschool student with Mr. Pollack at Isleworth college west London. My Father has all the proofs etc.He was asked to provide a portrait which he always thought hung in the Vienna Hall of Fame and was shocked to see his work on display in London.My father is currently retired