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Britain in Focus: A Photographic History

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1 Season · 3 Episodes · Premiered July 22, 2014 · Ended March 20, 2017

Series in which Eamonn McCabe celebrates Britain's greatest photographers, sees how science allowed their art to develop, and explores how they have captured our changing lives and country.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

3 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Mon, Mar 6 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Eamonn McCabe explores how science and technology allowed pioneering photographers like Roger Fenton and Julia Margaret Cameron to create a new art form.
E02
Episode 2
Mon, Mar 13 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Eamonn McCabe explores how British photographers responded to historic events in the first half of the 20th century and traces the emergence of photojournalism.
E03
Episode 3
Mon, Mar 20 2017 9:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Photographer Eamonn McCabe traces the story of British photography from the explosion of colour images in the late 1950s to the ongoing impact of the digital revolution.

Cast

Eamonn McCabe
Eamonn McCabe as Presenter
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