Mate Yelavich, handy man, c. 1950.
by Susan Yelavich
By sheer coincidence, my students and I read Clive Dilnot’s 2012 essay “Chris Killip: The Last Photographer of the Working Class”1 on our blackest Tuesday: Election Day, November 8th. (We were originally meant to discuss it a week earlier.) Either way, back in August when I was refining the syllabus, it didn’t cross my mind how acutely relevant his discussion of Killip’s photographs would prove.
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The Deep “Why” of the 2016 Election Tragedy
Mate Yelavich, handy man, c. 1950.
by Susan Yelavich
By sheer coincidence, my students and I read Clive Dilnot’s 2012 essay “Chris Killip: The Last Photographer of the Working Class”1 on our blackest Tuesday: Election Day, November 8th. (We were originally meant to discuss it a week earlier.) Either way, back in August when I was refining the syllabus, it didn’t cross my mind how acutely relevant his discussion of Killip’s photographs would prove.
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