Women in Art presents the first Art, Tea and Talks at Burgh House in Hampstead, on Shirley Baker.
Shirley Baker's daughter, Nan Levy, is in conversation with art historian, James Hyman.
Baker (1932 - 2014) was one of Britain’s most compelling yet underexposed social documentary photographers. Her street photography of the working-class inner-city areas, taken from 1960 until 1981, would come to define her humanist vision. Shirley’s curiosity and engagement with the everyday world around her resulted in many different strands of work, many of which are yet to be exhibited, each of which confirms her acute observation, visual humour as well as compassion for the lives of ordinary people as distinctive in its exploration of post-war British culture.
With guest speaker James Hyman. With a thirty-five year career, James has worked as an art historian, an art critic, an art dealer, a curator, broadcaster and lecturer. In 1999 he established James Hyman Gallery, specialising in twentieth century British art, especially by the “School of London”. He has served on multiple boards and professional associations, made major donations of photographs to the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the Yale Centre for British Art, USA, and in 2020 founded a charity to support photography in Britain, The Centre for British Photogtaphy.
