Sergio Larrain: London. 1959. author-martin-gayford faith and science

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Sergio Larrain: London. 1959. author-martin-gayford faith and scienceIn the winter of 1958, Sergio Larrain (19312012) travelled to London. He spent just a few months there, but captured an extraordinarily powerful vision of the city. Larrain's London is a fast moving blur of activity. His photographs reveal the signs of the emergence of a new, post war London society: the class divisions, the burgeoning fashions of its youth, and the everyday life of Londoners about to enter a new decade: the Sixties. These images