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Feral Glasgow, Post Punk City

Feral Glasgow, Post Punk City

Martin McClenaghan's photographs of Glasgow in the early 1980s capture the city in all its messy chaos, post-punk haircuts included

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Barras, by Martin McClenaghan, from Post Punk City

When Ian Jack commissioned the French photographer Raymond Depardon to visit Glasgow in 1980 for the Sunday Times, he was hoping to illustrate the idea that the Dear Green Place, along with Antwerp and Clermont-Ferrand, was more rewarding to visit than its reputation implied. In the end, the argument was…

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