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Boot-boys are 'Big Picture' in the Observer.
The Observer's Big Picture (Sunday 12 August 2018). In celebrating the forthcoming group photography show Distinctly Britain — at the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China — Sean O'Hagan features Meadows's 'Boot-boys' picture from the Free Photographic Omnibus, Barrow-in-Furness (1974).
Distinctly Britain, curated by Tracy Marshall, features 150 photographs by twelve artists who have been making work in Britain over the last five decades. Daniel Meadows is represented with a dozen of his National Portraits: Now & Then photographs. The other photographers included are: Elaine Constantine, Ken Grant, Paul Hill, Chris Killip, Markéta Luskačová, Kirsty Mackay, Niall McDiarmid, Tish Murtha, John Myers, Paul Seawright and Martin Parr.
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Boot-boys are 'Big Picture' in the Observer.
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In the UK when we ask: "Where are you from?" we want to know a lot more than just your place of birth.
This story is about the England I come from.
Book. 1973. City Close-up. Wonderful English oral history done in Blackburn, Lancashire. The book by which all other books of oral history must be measured.