EDWARD BARBER
2016-05-16‘I see this as preventative photography. The photographs here are both a celebration and a warning.’
Edward Barber
Taken originally to gain publicity for the movement, Barber’s collected body of work, Peace Signs today represents an important social document of these major protests against the presence of American nuclear cruise missiles in Britain between 1980 and 1984.
Barber’s images will appear alongside a newly commissioned graphic installation entitled Mind Map of Anti-Nuclear Protest to create a social record of both individual and collective responses to war. Barber illuminates the activists’ humour and creativity by capturing the signs, make-up and costumes, illustrating the often overlooked role of performance theatre, folk art and fashion at peace camps and demonstrations.
Opposite – A picket mounted by the Women’s Peace Camp at RAF/USAF Greenham Common, Berkshire, 1982
Exhibition runs through to September 4th, 2016
IWM London
Lambeth Road
London
SE1 6HZ
