[The Guardian] The big picture: organised chaos in a Manchester haberdashery

The big picture: organised chaos in a Manchester haberdashery

The photographer John Bulmer created a distinctively English palette in his early colour images reimagining the north

Talking about his life in photography, John Bulmer, now 82, once remarked that the whole process was one of instinctive abstraction: “You are trying to reduce a very cluttered world into shapes and images that are simple enough to give a strong impression.”

Never was that principle more severely tested than in this picture he took in 1976 of the two proprietors of a haberdashery shop in Manchester. In their coats and cardigans and caps they are only just distinguishable from the racks and shelves and piles of wool and buttons and zips from which they make their living.

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