Humphrey Spender Dead at 94
Humphrey Spender, an English photographer who photographed poverty and unemployment in Britain's cities died on March 11.
He first studied architecture before turning to photography. He worked for the magazine "Picture Post" under the nickname "Lensman". Picture Post, a magazine that pioneered photojournalism, was first published in the UK in 1938.
Spender was a member of the "Mass Observation" movement, taking photos of daily life in working-class communities in Britain. Taken between 1937 and 1940, his most well known photographs are of the "Worktown Study". Worktown was the Mass Observationist's codename for Bolton. Much of the time, Spender worked surruptitiously, keeping his Leica M under his coat.