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Family in Snack Bar, Prestatyn

Writing in the Observer, critic Laura Cumming said:

‘Michael Bennett’s black and white photographs from the late 1970s

show seasides from Llandudno to St Leonards

as melancholy and austere in every season,

homing in on the weather-beaten faces of solitary workers

– the signalman, the kiosk girl,

the caretaker lugging the barrier to a pier in dark rain at closing time.

They are starkly poignant laments’

'Too negative!':

The Welsh seaside images that caused a controversy – in pictures

In 1979,

Michael Bennett set out to photograph the seaside resorts of North Wales.

Local critics hated the results and Bennett’s work was lost … until now

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Tue 19 Jan 2021    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/19/
welsh-seaside-images-controversy-michael-bennett-in-pictures

Michael Bennett

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/19/
welsh-seaside-images-controversy-michael-bennett-in-pictures

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