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John Wade remembers when the shutters finally closed on the British camera industry

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When Thomas Joshua Cooper and Paul Hill set out in 1974 to meet and interview the ‘movers and shakers’ of 20th-century photography (see Dialogue with Legends, AP 1 April) they had no idea that the project would take four years and become a unique archive that is still in print. Paul Hill describes the first interview – American photographer Paul Strand in Paris – that kicked it off, followed by extracts from the recorded encounter

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