An Ideal for Living: Photographing Class, Culture and Identity in Modern Britain
| Type | Exhibition |
|---|---|
| Title | An Ideal for Living: Photographing Class, Culture and Identity in Modern Britain |
| Event date | 27 Jul 2016 to end of 17 Sep 2016 |
| Location | Beetles + Huxley Gallery, London, UK |
| Web address (URL) | https://huxleyparlour.com/exhibitions/an-ideal-for-living-photographing-class-culture-and-identity-in-modern-britain/ |
| Notes | An Ideal for Living is an exhibition about how photographers have perceived class, culture and identity in modern Britain. Drawing on the work of 29 diverse photographers, it considers how photographing Britain has contributed to the creation of a collective national identity. The exhibition shows the variety and creativity with which photographers have sought to document what they consider to be a particularly British way of life from the 1920s to now. Includes: Richard Billingham, Bill Brandt, John Bulmer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Peter Dench, Raymond Depardon, Elliott Erwitt, Anna Fox, Frank Habicht, E. O. Hoppé, Mahtab Hussain, Colin Jones, Philip Jones-Griffiths, Chris Killip, Neil Libbert, James Morris, Marin Parr, Tony Ray Jones, Charlie Phillips, Syd Shelton, Derek Ridgers, Jürgen Schadeberg, Jo Spence The exhibition opens with photographs of British life in the interwar period. [...] |