Industrial Sublime

Maurice Broomfield was Britain's pre-eminent industrial photographer. His work captured the beauty and might of British industry in the decades following World War 2.
The V&A Museum in London will be holding an exhibition of Maurice's work from October 2020, for one year, in the Photographer's Centre. A film, My Father and Me, about Maurice's work will be shown on BBC2 prior to the exhibition.

Maurice Broomfield (1916-2010) was a humanist photographer of the heroic and sublime - and sometimes surreal - qualities of industry and manufacture. He captured factories and their workforces in an era of rapid transition in the 1950s and 1960s, depicting the remnants of the industrial revolution alongside emerging modern technologies. Taking inspiration from eighteenth-century paintings and modernist photography, he composed pictures meticulously, and with deep empathy for his subjects. This book shows a selection of his most important images alongside contextual material, much of which has never been published before. Broomfield's vision remains relevant, and prompts questions about the legacy of British industry.