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Maurice William Broomfield (2 February 1916 – 4 October 2010) was an English photographer whose images of post-war British industry were credited with capturing the optimistic spirit of the time.
Maurice Broomfield (1916 – 2010) made some of the most spectacular photographs of industry in the 20th century. His work spans the rise of post-war industrial Britain in the 1950s to its slow decline into the early 1980s.
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 November 2021. the exhibition will be showing for 12 months in the V&A PhotographY Centre.
Nov 6, 2021 · Maurice Broomfield's dramatic photographs captured factories and their workers in an era of rapid transition, depicting the remnants of the industrial revolution alongside emerging technologies.
Listen to photographer Maurice Broomfield (1916 – 2010) talk about some of his most iconic industrial photographs, taken inside Britain's factories in the 1950s and '60s. Maurice Broomfield photographed the changing face of industry.
Mar 24, 2022 · How Maurice Broomfield captured Britain at work. The leading postwar industrial photographer created images that are romanticised, unreal and full of respect for hard labour.
There’s a cathedral-like grandeur in these photos, something Promethean: tiny human figures, in control of so much raw fire. But they were never really in control: Maurice Broomfield was.
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