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| Daniel Meadows, National Portrait (Three Boys and a Pigeon), 1974 |
Modern Nature: British Photographs from the Hyman Collection -
The Hepworth Wakefield (until 22 April 2019)
From the Hepworth Wakefield website:
For the first time in human history, more people are living in urban environments than in the countryside, yet the impulse to seek out nature remains as strong as ever.
This new exhibition of photographs by leading British photographers
such as Shirley Baker, Bill Brandt, Anna Fox, Chris Killip, Martin Parr
and Tony Ray-Jones explores our evolving relationship with the natural
world and how this shapes individuals and communities.
Drawn from the photography collection of Claire and James Hyman,
Modern Nature includes
around 60 photographs taken since the end of the Second World War,
through the beginnings of de-industrialisation to the present day.
The exhibition explores the merging of urban and rural landscapes,
the rapid expansion of cities and the increasingly intrusive management
of the countryside. The works on display are by turns poetic and
humorous, occasionally absurd.
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| Bill Brandt, Top Withens, West Riding Yorkshire,1945 |
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| Shirley Baker, Abandoned Car, 1961 |
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| Paul Hill, Legs over High Tor, Matlock, 1975 |
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| Keith Arnatt, A.O.N.B. (Area of Outstanding natural Beauty), c.1982 |
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| John Davies, Monkwearmouth, Colliery, Sunderland, Co. Durham, 1983 |
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| Martin Parr, New Brighton, Merseyside, from "The Last Resort", 1983-86, c.1985 |
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| Mark Power, HEBRIDES Friday 27 August 1993, from "The Shipping Forecast", 1993 |
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| Simon Roberts, Red Road Flats, Balornock, Glasgow, 2014, 2014 |
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| Simon Roberts, Ferrybridge Power Station, Knottingly, West Yorkshire, 2016, 2016 |
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