It was in 1905 that the Manchester Guardian published its first ever photograph, of the Angel Stone in Manchester Cathedral. And it’s a story that’s currently being told in a new exhibition, The Picture Library, at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, opening this week. Both newsrooms maintained a roster of staff photographers and associated facilities such as darkrooms. The selection of photographs for the Photographers’ Gallery exhibition includes everything from vintage treasures and discoloured agency wire photos to classic examples of the work of numerous Guardian staff photographers. The picture library itself has proven a surprising repository of rhetoric, persuasion and a tool for the articulation of these liberal values.

Source: The Guardian June 24, 2021 06:00 UTC