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| John Bulmer, Lonely Pub, Yorkshire, 1964 |
John Bulmer: The North is at
Canwood Gallery (Checkley, Herefordhire) until 29 June 2018
From the Canwood Gallery website:
Famous for pioneering the use of colour photography in journalism in the
1960s, John Bulmer’s The North exhibition documents life in the cities of
northern England, capturing the bleak and the beautiful in equal measure.
Many of the photographs on show were originally commissioned for the Sunday
Times magazine in 1965 following the launch of the first-ever colour
supplement.
Until this point, ‘the North’ as it was broadly labelled, had only ever been
captured in black and white. The established feeling was that the industrial
landscape of mills, chimneys and cobbles could only be conveyed in monochrome.
John challenged this view, taking colour images that offered a unique
combination of industrial landscape, domestic life and characterful people.
Below is a selection of Bulmer's images from the 1960s and 1970s. NB these are not necessarilly included in the present exhibition - but they might be!
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| John Bulmer, The Black Country, 1960 |
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| John Bulmer, Mill Girls, Yorkshire, 1965 |
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| John Bulmer, Leeds, 1965 |
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| John Bulmer, Halifax, West Yorkshire, 1964 |
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| John Bulmer, Moss Side, Manchester, 1965 |
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| John Bulmer, Ford Capri, Manchester, 1977 |
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