No Such Thing as a Soceity
Hayward Gallery
No Such Thing as Society documented British photography from the 1960s to the late 1980s. Drawing on the collections of the Arts Council and British Council, it gave a radically new picture of these turbulent decades.
The early 1970s saw the emergance of new approaches to photography, which focused on social realism. For example, Tony Ray-Jones captured the comedies of social class and human behaviour within the constraints of British culture. The human cost of de-industrialisation in the late 1970s and the 1980s were central themes of documentary photographers of the period and are demonstrated by the work of Chris Kilip and Paul Graham. The social disasters captured in their work contrasted sharply with Martin Parr's colour photographs of holiday makers in New Brighton.
Hayward Publishing
2007
Softcover
25 x 19 cm
168 pages
£70
Enquire
Hayward Gallery
No Such Thing as Society documented British photography from the 1960s to the late 1980s. Drawing on the collections of the Arts Council and British Council, it gave a radically new picture of these turbulent decades.
The early 1970s saw the emergance of new approaches to photography, which focused on social realism. For example, Tony Ray-Jones captured the comedies of social class and human behaviour within the constraints of British culture. The human cost of de-industrialisation in the late 1970s and the 1980s were central themes of documentary photographers of the period and are demonstrated by the work of Chris Kilip and Paul Graham. The social disasters captured in their work contrasted sharply with Martin Parr's colour photographs of holiday makers in New Brighton.
Hayward Publishing
2007
Softcover
25 x 19 cm
168 pages
£70
Enquire