The focus is on protest, class conflict and social division but there is joy and humanity amid the miserabilism
Eyes creased in glee, mouth breaking into a wide grin, body tilting forward in laughing conspiratorial pose, the 13-year-old Black kid on the poster outside Tate at Millbank entices you into the exhibition The 80s: Photographing Britain, promising high spirits and humour. Fat chance.
Homelessness suddenly visible in London is one of my visceral 1980s memories, alongside excess — Big Bang euphoria in the City, big hair and shoulder pads in its bars. Growing discrepancies of wealth, and those between left-behind regions and the booming capital, shape any narrative of the decade. It was showcased at the time, for example in Another Country in 1985 at the Serpentine, Kensington Gardens, exhibiting two outstanding chroniclers of northern deindustrialisation.
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