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Face: Shape and Angle

Helen Muspratt, Photographer

By (author) Jessica Sutcliffe
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Manchester University Press, Manchester, United Kingdom
Published: 13th Jan 2016
Dimensions: w 240mm h 318mm d 18mm
Weight: 1155g
ISBN-10: 1526100843
ISBN-13: 9781526100849
Barcode No: 9781526100849
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Born into a civil service family in India in 1907, Helen Muspratt was a lifelong communist, a member of the Cambridge intellectual milieu of the 1930s, and a working mother at a time when such a role was unusual for women of her class. She was also a pioneering photographer, creating an extraordinary body of work in many different styles and genres. In partnership with Lettice Ramsey she made portraits of many notable figures of the 1930s in the fields of science and culture. Her experimental photography, using techniques such as solarisation and multiple exposure, bears comparison with the innovations of Man Ray and Lee Miller. This book reproduces some of Helen Muspratt's most important photographic images, including documentary records of the Soviet Union and the Welsh valleys. The accompanying text by Jessica Sutcliffe is an intimate and revealing memoir of her mother that offers a fascinating insight into her life, work and politics. -- .

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'Jessica Sutcliffe's book, painstakingly researched and wonderfully written, will supply yet one more piece in the photo-historical jigsaw which is the history of women's photography.'
Val Williams, author of Women Photographers, The Other Observers -- .