BROOMFIELD
PHOTOGRAPHS
12th - 20th MARCH 2004
Open 12.00 - 6.00 Monday - Saturday
Maurice Broomfield’s
industrial and architectural photographs document a period of post war
heavy industry and urban regeneration in Britain. He is recognised as
the one of the first industrial and architectural
photographers to use his corporate commissions to make visionary photographic
studies of
the workers and the environments in which they were forced to work, his
motivation stemming from his
curiosity in the diversity of their occupations. The
resulting photographs are fascinating historical documents, powerful social
comments on the ‘pre-Thatcher’ , ‘pre-Health and safety’
Britain, whilst displaying lucid,atmospheric, gritty realism.
This exhibition will be a retrospective of his photographic career, including
industrial, architectural and travel photographs, as well as displaying
many of his original camera equipment; half plates, whole plates, Rolleiflex
and Hasselblads, themselves now part of a pre-digital history.
Maurice Broomfield is the father of award winning documentary
maker, Nick Broomfield; (Aileen; life and death of a serial killer and
Biggie and Tupac).
ELMS LESTERS PAINTING ROOMS
1-3-5 FLITCROFT STREET
LONDON WC2H 8DH
t: 020 7836 6747
f: 020 7379 0789
e: fiona@elmslesters.co.uk
nearest tube:
Tottenham Court Road
admision: Free
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