The Photographers' Gallery currently have an exhibition of the late Shirley Baker's street photography in Manchester and Salford; from 1961 to 1981, but mostly from the Sixties, at a time when the old slums were being cleared away.
They're calling it, and the accompanying book, Women, Children and Loitering Men. To our ears that surely has an unpleasant connotation of sexual predation, but the only men loitering here are the old and the unemployed, so I've no idea why they thought that was a suitable title. Provocative, perhaps? Anyway, title aside, the exhibition is wonderful.
[Photos: © Shirley Baker Estate, courtesy of Mary Evans Picture Library]
Here's an interview with the woman with the pram in that last picture.
More pics here.
Shirley Baker previously.
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