Photography News | Issue 42 | absolutephoto.com
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Interview
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Opposite page, left Motor Racing at St Ouen’s Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands by Elmar Ludwig. Opposite page, right Heysel Stadium Disaster, 1985 by Eamonn McCabe. Left Durhamminers, pictured with their ponies, 1965, John Bulmer. Below left Meall Mor; Glencoe, 1989 by Fay Godwin.
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The exhibition runs 17 March-25 June at The National Media Museum, situated in Bradford city centre and open daily 10am-6pm. Entrance is free. The exhibition features the work of photography’s pioneers including William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron and Alvin Langdon Coburn and also includes the work of John Bulmer, Jane Bown, Martin Parr and Eamonn McCabe. Britain in Focus also charts changes in technology through the years, from glass plates to film cartridges, black & white to colour, from paper to pixels. John O’Shea, senior exhibitions manager at the National Media fundamental role photography and photographers have played in recording the last two centuries in Britain – not only major social changes and historic moments, but also everyday life. Equally the exhibition shows the development of photography over this time, pointing to the incredible pace at which technology, technique and subject matter have advanced, as its popularity made it the medium of choice for people to view and record their lives.” Britain in Focus: a photographic history Museum, said: “Throughout Britain in Focus we see the
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