How London changed ... 1930 and 1980

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These photographs are great!

180 photographs on exhibition are works by legendary names such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn and Bruce Davidson.  The photographs will spend the summer in Tate Britain's Linbury Gallery in a show depicting a vibrant city's transformation before the horrors of the second world war to the era of Margaret Thatcher.

Another London: International Photographers Capture City Life 1930-1980 opens at Tate Britain on Friday July 27 and runs until Sunday September 16.

 

1966 photo by Milon Novotny of a toothless top-hatted man among crockery during trading at Middlesex Market

Wolfgang Suschitzky, 1942, St Paul's: the eastwards view from St Paul's cathedral towards Tower Bridge shows post-Blitz London, with rubble from the Luftwaffe's sustained bombing campaign largely cleared to admit traffic. This 1940s view from the cathedral gives a clear sight-line of the Monument to the 1666's Great Fire of London, seen to the left of Tower Bridge.

American photographer Bruce Davidson took this 1960 photo,"Girl Holding Kitten", the girl's name is unknown, despite spending a couple of hours with her and a friend. In April 2011 he told the Guardian he was eager to trace her.

Neil Kenlock took this picture of the Bailey sisters on a Clapham doorstep around 1970 - one of 180 photographs documenting London from 1930 - 1980 through the eyes of international photographers in a new exhibition at Tate Britain

American photographer Al Vandenberg moved to London in the early 1960s. This untitled photo of three youths  as they stood next to a shop advert on Archway Road.

Henri Cartier-Bresson's 1937 image of two men hoisting a lady on their shoulders, Waiting in Trafalgar Square for the coronation parade of King George VI.

Mario De Biasi's London was taken in 1975, showing a smartly dressed couple and child.

 

Markéta Luskacová moved to London from Prague in 1970. This 1979 shot, Cafe on Bethnal Green Road, shows customers in flat caps and big coats in the east end.

See more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178257/Toothless-tinkers-hats-bombed-streets-changing-faces-Britain-Classic-photos-bring-life-80-years.html#ixzz21ac7CJFU