The North
John Bulmer
£150.00
The hard times etched on the faces of John’s subjects told of a life of struggle framed against an often bleak industrial background. These were the people forgotten as the ‘Swinging Sixties’ changed the cultural landscape.
The launch of The Sunday Times Colour Magazine in 1962 was to propel Bulmer’s... Read More
The hard times etched on the faces of John’s subjects told of a life of struggle framed against an often bleak industrial background. These were the people forgotten as the ‘Swinging Sixties’ changed the cultural landscape.
The launch of The Sunday Times Colour Magazine in 1962 was to propel Bulmer’s photography in a new direction. The sudden switch to colour caught out most photographers, who continued to shoot in black and white. John made the adjustment seamlessly and became one of the magazines main contributors, Colour gave a new way of seeing the North; perhaps less bleak but certainly more subtle. Today, colour is taken for granted but, at the time, this was a radical body of work and its publication here is in recognition of john’s importance as a photojournalist of the first rank.
Condition: Very good, original price sticker on back and very slight damage to one corner and bottom