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Maurice Broomfield

aurice Broomfield chronicled with a painterly eye a time of great transition in postwar Britain. Working as the country’s leading industrial photographer in the 1950s and 1960s, often on commission, he pictured factory workers with a focus on the dramatic and surreal. In , at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, these vibrant and carefully composed images express the photographer’s optimism toward British industrial progress in the wake of war. Broomfield grew

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