Brian Griffin : Capitalist Realism at Steven Kasher Gallery – The Eye of Photography

Brian Griffin : Capitalist Realism at Steven Kasher Gallery

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When arriving in London in 1972, Brian Griffin received an assignment from the English magazine Management Today to photograph the working world. For Griffin, failure was hiding everywhere. Even though the artistic director (  formerly of Camera, a trilingual photo-magazine) often compared him to Robert Frank, nothing satisfied Brian Griffin. People posed motionless before the camera.