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The post-war period was a golden age for photography in Britainmarked the apogee of the illustrated press with magazines such as Lifeand Picture Post, the birth of Magnum (the first independent photographicagency) in 1947, and the emergence of documentary photographersworking with a new artistic freedom.This book explores photography from the first year of post-war peaceto 1979 (a year that saw the election of Margaret Thatcher, the siege ofthe American Embassy in Tehran and the first black-led government ofRhodesia/Tanzania in 90 years). This is arguably the most memorable, andyet tumultuous, epoch in history; a time of hope and change for many asEurope's empires collapsed in Africa and Asia, and simultaneously a timeof pain and new oppressions during the Civil Rights and Cold War eras.Britain in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was changed indelibly: shaped byde-colonization and mass immigration; by de-industrialization at home;and by the struggle for new economic and political influence abroad afterthe collapse of the empire.Including work by celebratory photographers such as Lee Miller, Bill Brandt,Philip Jones-Griffiths, Larry Burrows, Margaret Bourke-White, WernerBischof, Henri Cartier-Bresson and David Goldblatt, this book will alsoshine a light on lesser-known yet no-less-exceptional photographers suchas Homai Vyarawalla, Rashid Talukdar, Ernest Cole ('Kole'), Bandele 'Tex'Ajetunmobi, Fan Ho, Thurston Hopkins, Shirley Baker and Paul Trevor.
