Don McCullin's view of England is rooted in his wartime childhood
and growing up around Finsbury Park in the fifties. His first
published photograph was a picture of a gang from his
neighbourhood, which appeared in a newspaper after a local murder;
McCullin always balanced his anger at the unacceptable face of the
nation with tenderness or compassion. In England combines some of
his greatest work with an entirely new body of photographs.
McCullin sees his home country with its perpetual social gulf
between the affluent and the desperate in mind. He continues in the
same black and white tradition as he did between foreign
assignments for the Sunday Times in the sixties and seventies, when
his view of a deprived Britain seemed as dark as the conflict zones
from which he'd just escaped. This book marks his return to the
cities and landscape he knew as a young photographer. At a time
when we might believe the world has changed beyond our imagination,
McCullin shows us a view of England where the line between the
wealthy and the deprived is as defined as ever. This time he adds
wry humour to his lyricism, as if the nation is as absurd as it is
tragic.
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