Description | Material drawn from the 2008 exhibition 'Don McPhee: Photographer', Guardian Newsroom,
Bromide prints made for the exhibition: Strike vote, Chrysler car plant, Coventry, 1975. 1 print - 20 x 24" Watersheddings, Oldham, 1982. 1 print - 20 x 24" Botshabelo, South Africa, 1990. 1 print - 16 x 20" Pietermarisburg, South Africa, 1990. 1 print - 16 x 20" Alan Bennett, Yorkshire, 1989. 1 print - 16 x 20" Saddleworth Moor, 1986. 1 print - 16 x 20" Boxing Day Cowboys, Salford, 1972. 1 print - 16 x 20" Window shopping, Stockport, c.1980. 1 print - 16 x 20" The last Belle Vue Christmas Circus, Manchester, 1981. 1 print - 16 x 20" Wives groups, Chrysler car plant, Coventry, 1975. 1 print - 16 x 20" Jesse Jackson, Presidential Campaign, Alabama, 1988. 1 print - 16 x 20" Miner's strike, Orgreave coking plant, 1984. 1 print - 16 x 20" Enoch Powell, King's Hall, Belfast, 1974. 1 print - 20 x 16" Nelson Mandela, Johannesburg, 1994. 1 print - 20 x 16" Margaret Thatcher, Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford, 1990. 1 print - 20 x 16"
Vintage prints shortlisted for the exhibition: The last pit ponies, Wheldale colliery, 1972. 1 print - 11.5 x 8" London Festival Ballet's The Nutcracker, rehearsal, Manchester, 1971. 1 print - 7.5 x 11" Harold Wilson, Huyton Labour Club, 1974. 1 print - 9 x 10" Edward Heath, 1973. 1 print - 8 x 11" Jeremy Thorpe, Coventry, 1976. 1 print - 9 x 12" PanAm flight 103. Lockerbie, 1988. 1 print - 13 x 16" Miner's strike, Orgreave coking plant, 1984 (Policeman's helmet). 1 print - 9 x 12" Miner's strike, Orgreave coking plant, 1984 (Arthur Scargil and loud speaker). 1 print - 11 x 16" Miner's strike, Orgreave coking plant, 1984 (Police and Pickets clash). 3 prints - 8 x 11" Miner's strike, Orgreave coking plant, 1984 (Sunbathing). 1 print - 12 x 16" Miner's strike, Orgreave coking plant, 1984 (Police hold down a Picket). 1 print - 8 x 11" Siege, Oldham, 1973. 4 prints - 8 x 10" Greek and Turkish refugee camps, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1974. 21 prints - 7.5 x 11" Catholic children being evacuated from Belfast to Dublin, 1972. 2 prints - 11 x 9.5" / 11.5 x 7.5" Media scrum at funeral, Derry, 1983. 1 print - 10 x 12" Orange Parade, Belfast, 1972. 4 prints - 6.5 x 8" Ulster Defence Association, Belfast, 1972. 1 print - 6.5 x 8" Members of the Ulster Defence Association preparing for a pitched battle against the British Army in Belfast (nd). 1 print - 7.5 x 12" Members of the Ulster Defence Association barricade the streets of Belfast, [1972]. 1 print - 7.5 x 12" Ulster Defence Association (child with baseball bat) (nd). 1 print - 16 x 20" Ulster Defence Association (preparing to battle), 1972. 1 print - 12 x 10" Belfast, 1972 (Soldier with gun). 1 print - 10 x 12" Short Strand murals, Belfast, 1974. 1 print - 10 x 12" Captured men and soldiers (arms against wall) (nd). 2 prints - 12 x 16" Township life in Alexandra near Johannesburg, South Africa, c.1990. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Plans for selection and photographs of Don's filing cabinets by Denis Thorpe |