Tate Britain’s uneven but captivating look at the 1980s

An exhibition about the 1980s starts in the 1970s and ends in the 1990s, such are the vagaries of trying to tell the story of a single decade that refuses to obey the rules of calendar boundaries.This is Tate Britain’s attempt to tell the story of a decade of change through the medium of photography that was taken at the time, capturing the challenges, struggles, emerging freedoms and commercial successes of the era.
Even for those of us old enough to have lived through it, the 80s feel li