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Exhibition: The Vanished East End

Location

Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives,

277 Bancroft Road,
London,
E1 4DQ

Dates

This exhibition CLOSED on Fri, 4th Feb 2022

This exhibition has finished.

Cost: Free of Charge

Description

The Vanished East End highlights the huge social and economic changes in the area, including the now vanished industrial landscape and the deregulation of the financial markets. The group show features work from the 1970s and the 1980s by acclaimed photographers Tom Hunter, Diane Bush, Mike Seaborne, Brian Griffin and Syd Shelton.

The work on show by four of the five photographers is highlighted in a recent publication series by Café Royal Books, a long term advocate of British documentary photography. Each book showcases each photographer’s distinctive and personal approach to capturing the area, and comprise.

Down the Lane features the work of Tom Hunter and dates from a time, now disappeared and prior to his professional career when he had a stall at Brick Lane Market and photographed the passers-by.

East End features the work of Diane Bush, which was made whilst working with EXIT, Britain’s first photography collective, which believed in the power of photography to contribute to positive social change.

London Docklands features the work of Mike Seaborne, showcasing the huge social and economic changes in the area through the 1970s which were defined by a vanished post-industrial landscape.

The Broadgate Development features the work of Brian Griffin, which comments on massive economic shifts but this time in the City of London in the 1980s where borders were re-drawn as the City spread with the deregulation of the financial markets.

Syd Shelton is a British photographer who documented the Rock Against Racism movement. His work is held in the collections of Tate and the Victoria and Albert Museum.


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Location

Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives,

277 Bancroft Road,
London,
E1 4DQ

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