Art News: A New Book Highlights the Forgotten Work of British Photographer Alice Longstaff
Above: life in Hebden Bridge, by Alice Longstaff
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Alice Longstaff, who died in 1992, was well known in her home town of Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, England, but not elsewhere. A working-class woman, she took astonishing photographs for 70 years. Yet, as The Guardian noted recently, she …