Michael Foot

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Michael Foot

by Laurie Lewis
modern bromide print, 6 May 1988
16 in. x 10 3/4 in. (407 mm x 273 mm) image size
Purchased, 2017
Photographs Collection
NPG x200022

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  • Michael Foot (1913-2010), Editor, man of letters and Labour politician; MP for Ebbw Vale and Blaenau Gwent and leader of the Labour Party. Sitter in 18 portraits.

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  • Laurie Lewis (1944-), Photographer. Artist or producer of 16 portraits.

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Current affairs

A Pan Am jumbo jet is brought down by a bomb over Lockerbie in Scotland, killing 259 passengers and 11 people on the ground. The Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary launched Britain's largest criminal investigation before convicting a Libyan intelligence officer of planting the bomb.

Art and science

Professor Stephen Hawking publishes his popular book on cosmology, A Brief History Of Time.
Damien Hirst and his fellow Goldsmiths students organise the exhibition Freeze in a disused block in the Docklands. The exhibition launched the careers of many of the young British artists (YBAs) associated with Brit Art including Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Sarah Lucas, Angus Fairhurst, and Anya Gallaccio.

International

Iraq drops poison gas on the Iraqi Kurdish city of Halabja, killing thousands of civilians. The city was held at the time by Iranian forces and Iraqi Kurdish rebels, although there was initially some debate over which side was responsible for the atrocity. It was the largest-scale chemical attack on civilians in modern times.

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Martin Farr

11 March 2019, 17:20

This isn't 1982. Foot's reading The Independent, which was first published in 1986. He's reading the 490th issue, of 6 May 1988, and we can assume that was the day that the photograph was taken.