Thatcher's children /
Thatcher's Children was born out of a series first made in 1992 focusing on two parents and six children living in a hostel for homeless families in Blackpool, England. The project was made in response to a speech by Peter Lilley, then Secretary of State for Social Security, in which he announc...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
GOST Books,
2023.
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| Summary: | Thatcher's Children was born out of a series first made in 1992 focusing on two parents and six children living in a hostel for homeless families in Blackpool, England. The project was made in response to a speech by Peter Lilley, then Secretary of State for Social Security, in which he announced his determination to 'close down the something-for-nothing society'. French newspaper Libération dispatched a journalist to northern England to find out what this society looked like, and Easton was commissioned to take the accompanying photographs. His resulting monochrome images of the overcrowded two-bedroom council flat in Blackpool sparked a reaction by both the public and the press. His images attached human faces and nuanced realities to a group of people casually maligned by politicians and media as an 'underclass of scroungers'. |
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| Item Description: | Title details taken from front and back cover. |
| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 27 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781910401842 1910401846 |