\u00a9 Estate of Shirley Baker \/ Mary Evans Picture Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe exhibition will focus on the way in which the change to the built environment of Salford from \u2018slum\u2019 to modern, was captured in Shirley’s work. The photographs will be displayed alongside material from the Working Class Movement Library\u2019s own collections to stimulate the recollection of people\u2019s memories of living in Salford at this moment in time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shirley Baker was born in Kersal in 1932 and took up photography at the age of eight when she and her twin sister were given cameras by an uncle. Shirley went on to study Pure Photography at Manchester College of Technology, followed by courses at London Regent Street Polytechnic and London College of Printing, at a time when few women received formal photographic training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the 1960s and 1970s Shirley photographed the inner-city working-class communities of Manchester and Salford as they experienced the \u2018sum clearances\u2019. Shirley\u2019s photographs have been described a \u2018empathetic but unsentimental\u2019 and demonstrate her interest in humanist subjects, a curiosity of human character and compassion for social injustice. The works specially selected for the exhibition show a community and landscape caught in transition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition will be located on the ground floor exhibition space of the Working Class Movement Library. It will be open to drop in visitors Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons from 1.00pm – 4.30pm. Entry is free.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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