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Images by Corry Bevington
Photographs of Battersea Pleasure Gardens at night and the Southbank Exhibitionsite
The photographer is Bridget Bishop (working name Corry
Bevington) who, currently on show in the London Street Photography exhibition at the Museum of London with street
photographs of Portabello Road, took most of her photographs
- including English rural crafts, canals, London protests, Dogon
buildings and people in Africa - during the 1950s.
Corry Bevington took these photographs of the Festival of
Britain at the Southbank and Battersea Park in 1951 having just
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left Guildford Art School as a young emerging photographer.
Bevington went on to take a series of images of Portobello Road
(eight of which are in the Museum of London Archive and two
which can be seen currently on show in the London Street
Photogaphy exhibition) as well as a comprehensive series of
contemporary rural industries in Britain and English canals all
in the 1950s. She has also travelled widely in West Africa,
Russia Yemen documenting mud-built architecture.
All images © Corry Bevington
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