Atmospheric photos show a lost world of British industry
If you were the sort of person to read trade magazines about heavy industry in the 1950s-80s, the chances are that the photos inside were taken by one man, Maurice Broomfield.Broomfield broke the mould on how photographs of modern industry should be composed, away from bland photos of empty factories and close-ups of machines, and in with dramatic artistic photos, often including the people who did the hard work in the factories. Men in front of hot furnaces, women inspecting aircraft engine fan
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