Do you ever wonder how foreign visitors to Britain view the country and its inhabitants? How do we appear and what do they make of our ways and customs. Do we appear familiar to the outsider’s eye or are we strange and peculiar? Bringing together a stellar cast of 23 international renewed photographers, including greats Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, and featuring previously unseen work, a new photography exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre, seeks to address these very questions by focusing on both the mundane, and eccentric aspects of life in Britain. So not too surprisingly rain sodden sooty pavements, derelict housing estates, and the bright lights of London as well as decaying northern towns are all on display here. But what makes this exhibition unique and the photographs on display utterly compelling is the story they tell about Britain and its changing cultural, social and political identity. The earliest images in the exhibition date from the early nineteen-thirties, and the most recent are from 2014. So as you wander around the exhibition you see desolate post-war Britain merge into the spirited 1960s with its mini skirts, nudity, student protests and optimism. The rigidity of the British social class is also […]
Do you ever wonder how foreign visitors to Britain view the country and its inhabitants? How do we appear and what do they make of our ways and customs. Do we appear familiar to the outsider’s eye or are we strange and peculiar? Bringing together a stellar cast of 23 international renewed photographers, including greats Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, and featuring previously unseen work, a new photography exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre, seeks to address these very questions by focusing on both the mundane, and eccentric aspects of life in Britain. So not too surprisingly rain sodden sooty pavements, derelict housing estates, and the bright lights of London as well as decaying northern towns are all on display here. But what makes this exhibition unique and the photographs on display utterly compelling is the story they tell about Britain and its changing cultural, social and political identity. The earliest images in the exhibition date from the early nineteen-thirties, and the most recent are from 2014. So as you wander around the exhibition you see desolate post-war Britain merge into the spirited 1960s with its mini skirts, nudity, student protests and optimism. The rigidity of the British […]
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