Thatcher's children / Craig Easton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Easton, Craig, photographer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Williams family.

Easton, Craig.

Poverty--England, Northern--Pictorial works.

Poverty.

Documentary photography.

England, Northern--Social conditions--20th century--Pictorial works.

England, Northern.

England, Northern--Social conditions--21st century--Pictorial works.

documentary photography.

Social conditions.

Northern England.

Genre:

Pictorial works

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

London : GOST Books, 2023.

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'.

Notes:

Title details taken from front and back cover.

ISBN:

1910401846

9781910401842

OCLC:

1363102186