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The City laid bare
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London’s Square Mile — a secret city
Photographs by Polly Braden, text by David Kynaston
(Hoxton Mini Press, 2019 £17.95)
In his Introduction to this collection of photographs by Polly Braden, the historian David Kynaston says laconically: “The modern City has become a self-perpetuating, absurdly over-rewarded island, too much cut off from the rest of Britain.”
The photographer Braden has spent years observing and photographing this alien environment and bastion of high finance with its denizens.
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