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Memories of my grandma

My grandma was the condensation of the zeitgeist in personal form. Certainly, in Lancashire, the cotton industry was concretised physically through the textile factories dominating the Irwell valley.   Steve Latham   The chimneys of Blake’s ‘dark satanic mills’, Lowry’s grey-brown townscapes peopled with ‘match men and matchstick cats and […]

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Racism in photography

Visual representations of race are shot through with racist attitudes and “Decolonising the camera” examines this through a series of case studies.   Sean Sheehan   In 1945, Life magazine – a large-format (36cm by 26cm) and hugely influential publication – produced six pages of photographs showing the horrors that […]