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What Depictions of the British Working Class Get Wrong

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By Anna Coatman Verified
| ArtReview Verified
In Lives Less Ordinary, a diverse portrait of working-class life offers welcome respite from the patronising photographs of Martin Parr Two boys with dirty knees and linked arms gambol down a Glasgow street, both looking directly into the camera. The English photojournalist Bert Hardy took this grainy black-and-white photograph of a postwar urban scene, titled Children of the Gorbals (Gorbal Boys), as part of an assignment for the Picture Post in 1948.
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‘Mother State’ Reveals the Political Stakes of Motherhood

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By Anna Coatman Verified
| Frieze Verified
Helen Charman is worried about her mother’s knees. They are ‘ruined’ – partly from bearing two children, but also from decades of working as a physiotherapist for the NHS, supplemented by cleaning jobs. (‘Pregnancy, like cleaning, fucks up your knees.’) Being a single parent employed in an undervalued caring profession meant a triple shift – with a triple strain on her cartilage.
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Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

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By Anna Coatman Verified
| BFI
Sixty years after it was first released, Cléo from 5 to 7 has finally leapt into the top 20: a slow pace for a film so light on its feet. When was this immaculate feature film, Agnès Varda’s essay on time and space, love and death, ever not on our minds?
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