The Long Road to Margaret Thatcher's Britain Paul Graham's 1983 Photo Book Returns
How a photographer's journey along Britain's oldest thoroughfare became an accidental portrait of a nation in transformation.
There is a photograph in Paul Graham's book A1: The Great North Road that tells more about Britain in the early 1980s than any policy paper or political speech. Two men in business attire stand against the creamy white stone of the Bank of England in the City of London. One, dressed in a blue suit, smiles broadly as he holds a piece of notepaper toward his younger companion, who wears navy-blue pinstripes and an equally broad grin. The bright-blue necktie of the older man is flopped over his raised arm, its hue...
Read more