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Exhibition « Women, Children and Loitering Men » by Shirley Baker
This exhibition is a rare chance to see the work of social documentary photographer Shirley Baker, and a portrait of the urban decline of late twentieth century Britain. It focuses on Baker's depictions of the urban clearance programmes of inner-city Manchester and Salford during 1961 - 1981 and the work documents what Baker saw as the needless destruction of working class communities. Shirley Baker, Hulme - 1965 © Shirley Baker Estate Courtesy of Mary Evans Picture Library Despite being the only woman practicing street photography in Britain at the time, Shirley Baker’s humanist documentary work received little attention throughout her sixty-five year career. She claimed never to have posed her pictures, an action inimical to her documentarist ideals, yet her multi-layered images and exact...
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This exhibition is a rare chance to see the work of social documentary photographer Shirley Baker, and a portrait of the urban decline of late twentieth century Britain. It focuses on Baker's depictions of the urban clearance programmes of inner-city Manchester and Salford during 1961 - 1981 and the work documents what Baker saw as the needless destruction of working class communities.
Shirley Baker, Hulme - 1965
© Shirley Baker Estate Courtesy of Mary Evans Picture Library
Despite being the only woman practicing street photography in Britain at the time, Shirley Baker’s humanist documentary work received little attention throughout her sixty-five year career. She claimed never to have posed her pictures, an action inimical to her documentarist ideals, yet her multi-layered images and exact...