Deptford calling… visions of Britain from below » Photoblog from Deptford and SE London

Bernd & Hilla Becher are the August Sanders of industrial landscape photography. Sander’s monumental People of the 20 Century (7 volumes, Harry N Abrams Inc, 2002) is a taxonomic portrait fest. Sander attempted to categorise ‘society’ by dividing it into groups and photographing them – and while doing so just happened to redefine portrait photography…

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