Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Chavs
The increase in the population of the working class has led to a new term being adopted into the English language – “Chav”. I plan to look at how the chav has been demonized, popularized and eroticised.
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The Hulme Crescents
The council built huge housing complexes. In the 1970s the Hulme Crescents were built, at the time they were the largest housing project in Europe. However, they were demolished less than two decades later due to being so dysfunctional. Increased crime, vandalism and other anti-social behaviour came into the working class’ lives.
Slums
One of the biggest slums in the 19th century was Angel Meadow, measuring just over 33 acres, it was home to nearly 30 thousand residents. "Hell upon Earth" was how author Friedrich Engels described it.
El Mac - Street Artist
Continuing with the theme of street art, I discovered LA-born grafitti artist El Mac. His detailed photorealistic work takes inspiration from Mexican and Chicano cultures
Sunday, 18 March 2012
Unit X
Investigating Manchester
After a week or so of wracking my brains and thinking about what I would like my project to investigate, I became inspired by the talk we were given by John Davis from the MMU Visual Resources Centre last week. He showed us slides from the collections, and what really caught my eye were the ones taken in the 1970s that depicted the housing estates in Hulme. I am interested by how Manchester used to look several decades ago, how this city was quite a depressing place to live at the time. Manchester was a very working class, industrial town, and the housing projects reflected this. I plan to look further into the old estates, particularly in Hulme and their subsequent demolition
After a week or so of wracking my brains and thinking about what I would like my project to investigate, I became inspired by the talk we were given by John Davis from the MMU Visual Resources Centre last week. He showed us slides from the collections, and what really caught my eye were the ones taken in the 1970s that depicted the housing estates in Hulme. I am interested by how Manchester used to look several decades ago, how this city was quite a depressing place to live at the time. Manchester was a very working class, industrial town, and the housing projects reflected this. I plan to look further into the old estates, particularly in Hulme and their subsequent demolition
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| Hulme 1960s, areas cleared for development of housing flickr.com/photos/mmuvisualresources |
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