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Chilean Magnum photographer Sergio LARRAÍN visited London in 1958 to find a city firmly rooted in tradition. Yet in its streets, its parks, its clubs and its cafés Larrain witnessed a city moving towards a new decade—a changing society.
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The powerful photographs in the out-of-print photo volume 'London 1958-59' by Sergio LARRAÍN present a vivid portrait of a coal-fired, smoke-laden London which has long since disappeared." (© Dewi Lewis, 2002)