Street Photographs by Shirley Baker

Street Photographs by Shirley Baker

Throughout the sixties and early seventies Shirley Baker spent many days wandering the streets of Manchester and Salford, taking photographs of children at play, women out shopping, old men on street corners. Her pictures capture the character of a whole way of life which was just then disappearing: a street world caught in late afternoon light, at the end of an era. Her astonishing colour and black and white photographs were first shown in the highly acclaimed Images of Salford exhibition at Salford Art Gallery.

Not since the photographs of the Farm Security Administration in America in the thirties have I seen someone photographing people in deprived states and getting herself so involvedIt is a remarkable set of pictures. -- Colin Ford * BBC's Kaleidoscope *
A remarkable document... truly memorable. -- Jim Aulich * City Life *

Shirley Baker was born in Kersal, North Salford, and moved to Manchester at the age of two. Her father had a family furniture manufacturing business in Salford, but this no longer exists and the building has since been knocked down. She grew up in Manchester with a twin sister, and is now married with one daughter and lives in Cheshire. She studied Pure Photography at Manchester College of Technology, and later took other courses at London Regent Street Polytechnic and London College of Printing. She has worked as an industrial photographer, as a freelance writer and photographer on magazines, books and newspapers, and as a lecturer at Salford College of Art and Manchester Polytechnic. In 1986 her exhibition Here Yesterday, and Gone Today (featuring photographs now published in this book) was shown at Salford Art Gallery as part of the Images of Salford exhibition supported by the Documentary Photography Archive and North West Arts. She has shown work at other exhibitions in Manchester, and in 1986 had a touring exhibition, My Face or Yours, specially commissioned by Cheshire Arts Services and supported by North West Arts. In 1987 she completed a project on the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, supported by Viewpoint Gallery, Salford, and a Manchester Airport commission for the Documentary Photography Archive which was televised by Granada in their Celebration arts series.

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ISBN 13	9781852240585
ISBN 10	185224058X
Title	Street Photographs
Author	Shirley Baker
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Year published	1989-04-20
Number of pages	128
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.