History & The Arts
Behind the camera
...working classes. Their 1930s cinema equivalents, the Grierson documentarists, did the same, with films like ‘Housing Problems’ giving slum dwellers a voice to highlight their conditions in the first filmed ‘vox pops’. Less campaigning and more anthropological was the photographic work of Humphrey Spender – who from 1937-38 documented the life and habits of the...