Exhibitions at Derby Museum and Art Gallery |
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Derby Museum and Art GalleryGBMaurice BroomfieldWhite Heat of British industry, 1950s-60sFORMAT Festival 201915 Mar – 5 May 2019Maurice Broomfield (1916-2010) made some of the most spectacular photographs of British industry, showing skilled men and women proudly at work in factories throughout the UK. His photographs made in the 1950s and 1960s reveal a workforce in an era of rapid transition, depicting the remnants of the nineteenth-century’s industrial revolution alongside emerging modern technologies. From shipyards to papermills, textiles to food production, and chemical plants to car manufacture, Broomfield e… more |