The Boyle Family
Boyle Family is a group of collaborative artists based in London. Mark Boyle and Joan Hills met in Harrogate, Yorkshire in 1957. Joan had studied art and architecture and was bringing up her first son Cameron whilst running her own business. Mark was in the army, writing poetry. After a period of working separately on visual art pieces, they incrementally moved into a natural collaboration - agreeing that art should not exclude anything as a potential subject.
Multi human being studies
In 1971 we began a series of attempts to record and fix the movement of people in certain social situations. We made photographic exposures for periods from a few minutes to half an hour on a variety of locations, the entrance to a tube station, a road crossing, telephone kiosk , a children's playground, and so on. It took us 6 to 7 years to complete the processing, but eventually we succeeded in producing density photos which indicate by colour differentiation the degrees of concentration of the people who pass.
* Interesting and investigative idea referring to social issues.
Density photograph of people in movement outside a tube station. The main concentration is in the plum red and magenta part of the plume. Some people were pushed wide, others went up the street, some hovered around the bookstall. Duration uncertain, probably about 10 minutes 71-78.