Tag: Don McPhee

  • Two images of the miners’ strike, an instant apart: so which is the classic? | Art and design | The Guardian

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    Two images of the miners’ strike, an instant apart: so which is the classic? The great photographers Don McPhee and Martin Jenkinson both shot a miner in a policeman’s helmet confronting cops at Orgreave – but whose image became iconic, and who decides? via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/06/photographers-scrum-winning-image-picture The great photographers Don McPhee and Martin Jenkinson…

  • Don McPhee, 1945-2007

    Don McPhee, 1945-2007

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    All too often newspaper photographers just vanish. As the witnesses of history we are rarely written into it. And we often like it that way. We want to be invisible. Photographer Don McPhee passed away after a long career with the English newspaper The Guardian. There is a great slideshow of his work narrated by…