exhibition

Middle Years

Philip Jones Griffiths

31.May.07 - 30.Jun.07
Mon-Fri 10-6 or by appt

Trolley Gallery
73a Redchurch St
London E2 7DJ
020 7739 5948
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Tube Liverpool Street, Old Street, Shoreditch / Hoxton

Trolley is proud to present the first London solo show by Philip Jones Griffiths. This new exhibition presents a period much closer to home, with a departure towards many previously unseen images taken of Britain in the 1950s,1960s and 70s. ‘Middle Years’ depicts social affairs and landmark events over two decades of change and upheaval in this country.
As the world’s most renowned photographer of the Viet Nam conflict his work brought to the fore the results of the US presence in the country and was intrinsically responsible for changing public opinion in the States against the war. Critical and charged with humanity, his images presented a monumental truth, showing the painfully visible trail the American invasion was leaving, and was still to leave, on the country.

Over these years he covers a full spectrum of social and political importance occurring in Britain. ‘Middle Years’ presents a domestic revolution, from a photographer whose international fame covering a country on the other side of the world is now put in the context of his equally incisive work at home.