CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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Books: John Chillingworth, Picture Post Photographer
A new collection of Picture Post photographer John Chillingworth's images shows a master craftsman at work, says JOHN GREEN
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
In verse and polemic, the bard points out that he is a poet and musician, not a political party
MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
John Chillingworth, Picture Post Photographer
(Dewi Lewis, £19.99)
Before mass access to television and the ubiquitousness of cheap miniature cameras, photographic images retained a value and importance unimaginable to us today, in our world of over-saturated imagery.
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