but Bulmer would go on to become a British
pioneer of colour for The Sunday Times
Magazine, from its first edition until the 1970s.
Peter Mitchell, another trailblazer of colour
photography, took a less conventional route.
As a lorry driver working in Leeds, he would
stop off on his rounds to take portraits of
factory owners and shopkeepers from
a stepladder. He held a landmark colour
exhibition in York in 1979.
In the 1980s photographers such as Martin
Parr and Anna Fox used colour to great
artistic and satirical effect. These and the
other photographers on these pages feature
in an exhibition, Facing Britain, that is touring
Europe, and in an accompanying book n
Facing Britain: British Documentary
Photography Since the 1960s is available
via Thames & Hudson at £25. For more
information, visit iks-medienarchiv.de
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