Spread from photo album 12 March 1984. Photo: Philip Winnard
MATTHEW HAWKINS relishes the valiant defiance of two gay Scottish painters whose example resists both collectors’ taste and historical fiction
Essays on contemporary Latin American feminism, a poetry debut by a queer Texan of Mexican heritage, and a lush volume of tango and milonga drawings
JOHN McINALLY welcomes a rigorous class analysis of the history and exploitation of sectarianism by the Scottish ruling elite
The bard pays homage to his two muses: his wife and his football club
THIS exhibition displays photographs made during the Miners’ strike and looks at how they were used and disseminated through the visual media of the time.
One side used images to illustrate chaos on picket lines being sprung by a so-called “enemy within,” while those in support of the strike attempted to debase such media bias, by showing the violence acted out by the state in police brutality, as well as the cruelty of the economic destitution endured.
Photojournalists John Harris and John Sturrock showed the day-to-day activities such as union meetings, winter picket lines, and coal riddling. Both photographers’ images were used by left-wing and union press, as they made careful decisions around who to licence to, knowing well the fractious mediatic landscape and its potential pitfalls.
