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Sixties Style: Ward, Wharton and Seymour

Past display archive
27 October 2001 - 14 April 2002

Room 32

Free

From 27 October 2001 the Balcony Gallery will display 38 previously unexhibited works by three distinguished photographers, Michael Ward, Bryan Wharton and Michael Seymour who began their careers in the Swinging Sixties, capturing Michael Caine, Barbara Windsor, Julie Christie and Germaine Greer at the outset of their careers.

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