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Old 12th January 2021, 08:08 AM
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An article from the Guardian.

Bonhams is auctioning some of her phots, and there's a book in the pipeline.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...in-in-pictures
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Thanks for the link:
I didn't know her name at all, but "Couple in MG" was an image I'd seen before.
Rather like some other links you've posted here these photographs have gained a resonance and an emotional weight with the passage of time. We can look back into a world changed for ever, and most often we didn't even notice it happening.
Like the seaside images of Michael Bennet, a world we took for granted is gone. Suddenly the photographs have a nostalgia and pathos nobody would have felt looking at them 40 years ago.
This comment is not about digital photography, but about a new attitude we seem to have: the modern world is being photographed more than ever, but it is also being sanitised and 'improved' even as the photographs get thrown onto Instagram and Facebook.
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