Behind the lens

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

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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Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

The Mammoth by George R Lawrence, 1900

PEARL Maskell drew the lace curtain aside. “The new neighbours opposite at number ninety-two look all right,” she said, directing the comment back to her mother, who was knitting. “Two ladies – mother