Shared Experience: Telephone exchange
Freedman’s self-portrait hanging on the pole establishes the artist’s presence in recording this quiet scene of apparent inactivity. The supine soldier, surrounded by pin-ups and reading a paper, is a member of No. 80 Wing Headquarters Telephone Exchange. Communications were vital, yet the nondescript telephone exchange unit gives no indication of its importance. Freedman’s small work painted in camouflage colours encapsulates a timeless moment during wartime.
Paintings
- Telephone exchange
Harold Freedman - Mess Deck
Jack Nichols - Moresby picture show
Charles Bush - Airmen In A Village Pub Yorkshire
Miller Brittain - Canadian Airmen in a Park
Goodridge Roberts - You'll Get Used To It
T.R. MacDonald - Waterloo Station
Colin Colahan - The fairground, Sydney 1944
Herbert Badham - Soldiers Bathing
Will Ogilvie - V.E. Day Street Party, 1945
Edwin La Dell