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.
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 on her playful and tender street photography.
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
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 surveying the camera with a look somewhere between innocence and wisdom. Older people look into the lens with an almost comic stoicism, their years and routines readable on their faces: cigarette-wrinkled lips; helmet-like hair that, through years of repetition, has grown into a distorted, heightened version of what it once was. In some images, people are staring, not always at Baker but at some unfurling scene—parents look at their children, beachgoers survey other holidaymakers, shoppers regard new wares.
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 a home away from home for
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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 a home away from home for British street photographer Shirley Baker (1932-2014), whose middle class family owned a furniture store in Salford.