Now and Then

Name: Now and Then
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SKU: 9781851245338
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England 1970-2015

By Daniel Meadows

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Now and Then by Daniel Meadows presents a compelling visual and auditory journey through over four decades of British life. Meadows, a trailblazer in documentary photography, uses his extensive archive to reveal the stories of England's everyday people. From his free portrait studio in 1972 Manchester to his extensive nationwide project in a converted double-decker bus and later digital storytelling at the millennium, Meadows offers an intimate and evolving portrait of a nation.
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This book will particularly appeal to readers interested in British culture, documentary photography, and social history. It is suited to those who appreciate collaborative, independent creative practices and the evolution of visual storytelling over time.

Daniel Meadows is a pioneer of contemporary British documentary practice. Drawing on the archives now held at the Bodleian Library, this book includes important work from Meadows' ground-breaking projects and offers a moving and insightful commentary on forty-five years' of life in Britain.

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Daniel Meadows is a pioneer of contemporary British documentary practice. His photographs and audio recordings, made over forty-five years, capture the life of England's 'great ordinary'. Challenging the status quo by working collaboratively, he has fashioned from his many encounters a nation's story both magical and familiar.

Now and Then includes important work from Meadows' groundbreaking projects, drawing on the archives now held at the Bodleian Library. Fiercely independent, Meadows devised many of his creative processes: he ran a free portrait studio in Manchester's Moss Side in 1972, then travelled 10,000 miles making a national portrait from his converted double-decker—the Free Photographic Omnibus—a project he revisited a quarter of a century later.

At the turn of the millennium, he adopted new 'kitchen table' technologies to make digital stories: 'multimedia sonnets from the people', as he called them. He sometimes returned to those he had photographed, listening for how things were and how they had changed. Through their unique voices, he finds a moving and insightful commentary on life in Britain. Then and now. Now and Then.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781851245338

Publisher: Bodleian Library

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 October 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bodleian Library

Illustration: 4 Illustrations, color; 105 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 237.0mm

Height: 259.0mm

Weight: 1138g

Pages: 160

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About the Author

Daniel Meadows' photographs have been exhibited widely with solo shows at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London (1975), Camerawork Gallery (1978), the Photographers' Gallery (1987) and a touring retrospective from the National Science and Media Museum (2011). Group shows include Tate Britain (2007) and Hayward Gallery Touring (2008).