British Photography

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.

Basic facts
MovementBritish Photography
Photographers4

Overview

Photography that critically reflects on postwar British class structure, consumer culture, and tourism.

Photographers

🇬🇧GB1935–
Don McCullin
War Photography
War PhotographyDocumentary+1

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.

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🇬🇧GB1936–2008
Philip Jones Griffiths
War Photography
War PhotographyDocumentary+1

Born in Wales in 1936 and deceased in 2008, Philip Jones Griffiths is known as a Magnum photographer whose Vietnam Inc.

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🇬🇧GB1946–2020
Chris Killip
Documentary
DocumentaryBritish Photography

British / Manx photographer, born in 1946 and died in 2020.

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🇬🇧GB1952–
Martin Parr
Documentary
DocumentaryNew Color+1

Martin Parr changed documentary photography by bringing saturated color, electronic flash, and intrusive closeness into the depiction of ordinary British life.

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