B&W Brilliance.

[allenlondon]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y6fKVKtNIi82kiMxGyj_warSIqxmEkEm/view?usp=sharing

A picture by the wonderful Chris Killip who has died.

The photo has been described as summing up Thatcherism. Very powerful, very moving.

A

[AuntPollyGrey]

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/gallery/chris-killip-dead-photographer-cancer-19100059

[allenlondon]

Thanks Aunt. I think they invented the word ‘bleak’ for Chris Killip’s work.

[retrocop]

What's a jarrow skinhead on a wall looking like he is going through cold turkey got to do with Thatcherism?

[AuntPollyGrey]

I spent many happy times staying with relatives in the NE mining communities. It wasn't all bleak, but he certain had a talent for capturing the spirit of people and places.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Its what she did to the mining communities in the NE. and this, in the 1980's was the aftermath. Thousands of young men with no jobs, no future.

[pastafreak]

Magnificent photo.
Though I suspect bleak started with the Victorians.
As some of these are...

https://londonist.com/london/art-and-photography/victorian-london-photos-charles-booth

[dannyk13]

Apc - //.this, in the 1980's was the aftermath. this, in the 1980's was the aftermath.//
Yhe photo is dated 1976.

[gulliver1]

Thatcher was the author of North South divide.

[Mamyalynne]

Some have the ability to capture an era, Chris certainly did that.

RIP

[Jackdaw33]

//The photo has been described as summing up Thatcherism. Very powerful, very moving.\\

Except for one thing: the photo was taken in 1976, three years before she came to office. At the time the country was run by Labour under James Callaghan.

[retrocop]

//Its what she did to the mining communities in the NE. and this, in the 1980's was the aftermath. Thousands of young men with no jobs, no future. //

Imagination is a wonderful thing but a socialist would blame whatever ills this skinhead has on Thatcherism.
A great photo indeed,very disturbing,but for all we know he could just as likely be mourning the murder of Nancy Spungen!

[AuntPollyGrey]

I wasn't referring to the original photo posted by Allen as I couldn't access it -hence me providing a second link.

[Canary42]

A photo can become iconic of current times, years after it was taken.

Sorry to annoy Thatcher's apologists.

[allenlondon]

Nit-picking over a date won't change anything.

The lad was in despair a few years before the woman came to power, but the tone of the country was changing before she clip-clopped into Downing Street.

The North East did not, all of a sudden, become a bleak place in 1979. But she (whose name I try not to utter) made in a damned site worse.

A

[Mamyalynne]

Sadly this was destined to become a politically divided thread from the outset rather than a celebration of the life of a great photographer.

[retrocop]

The original photo provided by Allen whereby he blames Thatcherism is the 6th down in your link APG.

[retrocop]

Get yerself a shovel Allen or a History book. :-)

[ToraToraTora]

have a day off HTF is that summing up Thatersm, looks like he's just been kicked in the cobras to me. You, me old china sum up Thatcherism more than you'd care to acknowledge.

[allenlondon]

Retro, keeping up with Answerbank's ad hominem policy "Get yerself a shovel Allen or a History book".

[ChillDoubt]

The coal industry wasn’t viable and was costing the country billions.

My stepdad told me that, a miner of some 37 years, man and boy.