Author Topic: Exhibition of Shirley Baker Street Photographs: Manchester and Salford  (Read 1833 times)

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Shirley Baker RetrospectiveSaturday 19 November 2011 to Sunday 4 March 2012
 Salford Museum and Art Gallery

Capturing the everyday street life of towns and cities across the north west and other places, Shirley Baker's photographs show a bygone era with a strong sense of community. Starting in the 1960s, her images show scenes of humour, social history and the innocence of youth. She began photographing her native Salford to document the human story of the soon to be demolished communities, recording through imagery a time of social change in the city
I Started Out with Nothing and I Still Got Most of It Left