British Photography | Photography Movement | History of Photography | Photo Coordinates |
British Photography is an important thread within the history of photography. Photography that critically reflects on postwar British class structure, consumer culture, and tourism. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.
Born in London in 1935, Don McCullin became one of the defining photojournalists of the postwar period through his coverage of Cyprus, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Northern Ireland.
Read detailsBorn in Wales in 1936 and deceased in 2008, Philip Jones Griffiths is known as a Magnum photographer whose Vietnam Inc.
Read detailsBritish / Manx photographer, born in 1946 and died in 2020.
Read detailsMartin Parr changed documentary photography by bringing saturated color, electronic flash, and intrusive closeness into the depiction of ordinary British life.
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