A Long Exposure: 100 Years of Guardian Photography, until March 1 2009, The Lowry, Salford
The Guardian newspaper has had strong, historic links to Manchester and these links continue to the present day even though the paper’s main office is now located in London.
Until 1st March 2009, The Lowry will be celebrating 100 years of Guardian photography with an exhibition of 100 distinctive images that reflect daily life and memorable images of important events over the last 100 years.
The Guardian is now based in London but for much of the 20th century it was run from Manchester and the photographs in this exhibition were taken by Manchester based Guardian staff photographers. The exhibition includes photographs by Tom Stuttard, Bob Smithies, Graham Finlayson, Neil Libbert, Don McPhee and Denis Thorpe as well as images by the Guardian’s first staff photographer Walter Doughty, appointed in 1908.
The images are a diverse and eclectic mix which ranges from almost mundane images of everyday life to the striking images of 20th century war and politics which will live on in your memory long after you leave the exhibition.
Images included in the exhibition include German prisoners from the Handforth Prisoner of War Camp, an aerial view of a First World War battlefield, Winston Churchill in Manchester Town Hall, the Irish civil War and the 1980s Miners Strike.
The exhibition will be at The Lowry, one of Manchester’s most important galleries, until 1st March. The Lowry is also home to a permanent exhibition of work by the iconic painter L S Lowry. The Lowry is located in the Salford Quays area of Salford, Greater Manchester.
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