Shirley Baker Bertien van Manen through the lens of artistic

through the lens of artistic practices and works which insightfully engage with the ongoing contemporaneity of disparate histories and the ever-changing status of the visual in social life

using 137 disposable cameras

the artist’s book bears witness to chapters in recent world events – mediated through weapons camera technology – while also shedding light on the ethical

and continues to play

victims of genocide in Bosnia

Shirley Baker Bertien van Manen through the lens of artisticShirley Baker developed her first photograph as a young girl from the darkness of the coal shed in her hometown of Salford, Northwest England. From this moment, she developed a lifelong interest in documentary photography, amounting to a vast and celebrated archival collection that spans the length of her career, dating from the 1950s until 2000. Edited by Lou Stoppard, this book presents an extensiveand, uniquely, femaledepiction of post war life; an