View from the north: The wit and warmth of Salford's post-war street photographer
The IndependentSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Shirley Baker became obsessed with photography as a young girl growing up in Salford, transfixed by her mother’s folding camera. “The notion of someone wandering the unpicturesque streets of Manchester and Salford with a camera seemed quite crazy to most people then.” Her extraordinary archive is more than just a document of a changing society. Editor Lou Stoppard visited Baker’s daughter and found boxes of unseen prints, compiling a comprehensive overview of half a century’s work, including Baker’s time spent in the south of France. “They show an image-maker with an analytical eye,” writes Stoppard in the book’s introduction, “someone who caught moments of great coincidence or aesthetic harmony, but saw through the purely visual into something more human—the great madness and oddness of this life.” ‘Shirley Baker’, edited by Lou Stoppard, is published by Mack
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