Images Dated 1st September 2005

Riot in the Galleria (1910), Umberto Boccioni

Umberto Boccioni settled in Milan where he was attracted by the new technological spirit that animated the city, and where he met the founders of the Futurist movement, the men who signed its first Manifesto as early as 1909. He promptly joined the movement, becoming perhaps its main interpreter and theorist.
In Riot in the Gallery, executed in the months immediately after his signature of the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting (1910), he utilized - and took to an extreme - the Divisionist technique to study the movements of the crowd and to create unprecedented effects of light and dynamism, accentuated by the use of extremely bright complementary colours

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Binocular Testing

A line of girls tests each pair of binoculars made for the Services before it leaves the factory. Their employers, Ross Ltd of Clapham, the largest optical instrument manufacturer in the country, are engaged in war-time contracts for the Ministry of Suppl

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Gale Force Tide

The sea front at Sutton-On-Sea, Lincolnshire, where an 80 mile-an-hour north-westerly gale whipped the tide, causing it to shatter the promenade and fling a six-foot blanket of sand over the town

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