Tag: Shirley Baker
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A life in colour: Capturing the punks of 1980s Britain
A life in colour: Capturing the punks of 1980s Britain Street photographer Shirley Baker would travel to London’s Camden Market every weekend, mesmerised by the area’s rebellious youth movement. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/a-life-in-colour-capturing-the-punks-of-1980s-britain/ Street photographer Shirley Baker would travel to London’s Camden Market every weekend, mesmerised by the area’s rebellious youth movement.
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A Photography of Gestures – Photographs by Shirley Baker | Book review by Mark Durden | LensCulture
A Photography of Gestures – Photographs by Shirley Baker | Book review by Mark Durden | LensCulture A new book shows Shirley Baker’s documentary work from a different perspective, shedding light on her playful and tender street photography via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/shirley-baker-a-photography-of-gestures A new book shows Shirley Baker’s documentary work from a different perspective, shedding light…
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Inside the Archive of Often Overlooked Street Photographer Shirley Baker | AnOther
Inside the Archive of Often Overlooked Street Photographer Shirley Baker via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12139/shirley-baker-mack-books-lou-stoppard-street-photography-manchester-1960s A new book, edited by Lou Stoppard and published by MACK, uncovers the extraordinary and extensive legacy of one of Britain’s most prolific street photographers, Shirley Baker
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Shirley Baker’s Half Century of Street Photography | The New Yorker
Shirley Baker’s Half Century of Street Photography The English photographer’s archive contains unheralded images that capture “the great madness and oddness of this life.” via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/shirley-bakers-half-century-of-street-photography In Shirley Baker’s photographs, men are caught gesturing, or mid-stride. Women slip past or sit, reflecting; sometimes they are close together, conversing, conspiring. Children play, occasionally…
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‘Women, Children and Loitering Men’: A Glimpse at Manchester’s Slums in the 1960s – Feature Shoot
‘Women, Children and Loitering Men’: A Glimpse at Manchester’s Slums in the 1960s – Feature Shoot The streets of the Manchester slums, in which children played on concrete roads and their parents watched as terraced homes were razed to the ground in favor of new developments, became in the 1960s and two decades following like…