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Key Works - An Overview of British Photography.
Key Works presents photographs from the collection to chart the ways in which British photographers have responded to the world around them from the documentary strategies of Bill Brandt and...Read more -
Land of Make Believe
A central aspect of the Hyman Collection's holidings of British photography addresses masquerade, performance, costume, ritual, parade. There is a strong thread of fantasy and a variety of works that...Read more -
Country Life
The Hyman Collection of British Photography includes many works which address the countryside including both landscapes and depictions of village life. These include depictions of the land as in Fay...Read more -
Queen and Country
The Hyman Collection includes many works which present folk customs, constructions of national identity and that address forms of patriotism and nationalism. At their centre is the flag and references...Read more -
A Night in London
A Night in London explores the legacy of Bill Brandt. A focused selection looks at London lives and turns its back on the London of tourists - the neon lighting of...Read more -
Spitting Image. Margaret Thatcher and the Golden Age of Political Satire
The 1980s under the premiership of Margaret Thatcher was one of the most divisive decades in twentieth centruy British history. A decade of enormous cultural, social, political and economic change,...Read more