Shirley Baker

♀ *1932-2014 / United Kingdom

Works

Solo exhibitions

PAVEMENT CRACKS

The Centre for British Photography, London (GB)
15 Sep 2024 – 1 Nov 2024
Street Life

IN FOCUS DISPLAYS

The Centre for British Photography, London (GB)
26 Jan 2023 – 28 May 2023
Women and children; and loitering men.

exhibition prints

James Hyman Gallery, London (GB)
21 Feb 2022 – 18 Mar 2022
A DIFFERENT AGE

James Hyman Gallery, London (GB)
22 Jun 2020 – 24 Jul 2020
Personal Collection

Photographers' Gallery, London (GB)
15 Jun 2018 – 28 Jul 2018
Women and Children; and Loitering Men

Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (GB)
19 May 2017 – 28 Aug 2017
On the beach

Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (GB)
20 May 2017 – 19 Aug 2017
Women, Children and Loitering Men

Official section PHotoEspaña 2016

Museo Cerralbo, Madrid (ES)
3 Jun 2016 – 4 Sep 2016
On the Beach

Photofusion, London (GB)
12 May 2016 – 16 Jun 2016
Women, Children and Loitering Men

Photographers' Gallery, London (GB)
17 Jul 2015 – 20 Sep 2015
Shirley Baker

Women, Children and Loitering Men

Photographers' Gallery, London (GB)
17 Jul 2015 – 20 Sep 2015

Group

Café Royal Books

the work of independent photography publisher

Impressions Gallery, Bradford (GB)
12 Sep 2024 – 30 Nov 2024

with Janette Beckman, Ian Beesley, Dorothy Bohm, John Bulmer, Daniel Meadows, Syd Shelton, Homer Sykes, Amelia Troubridge
Café Royal Books

an independent publisher dedicated to post-war photography from Britain and Ireland

Stills Center Photography, Edinburgh (GB)
10 Nov 2023 – 10 Feb 2024

with Sophie Gerrard, Chris Killip, Marketa Luskacova, Daniel Meadows, Martin Parr, Johny Pitts, Jo Spence, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, David Williams
The English at Home

Twentieth Century Photographs from the Hyman Collection

The Centre for British Photography, London (GB)
26 Jan 2023 – 28 May 2023

with Ian Berry, Richard Billingham, Bill Brandt, John Bulmer, Anna Fox, Ken Grant, Brian Griffin, Bert Hardy, David Hurn, Kurt Hutton, Colin Jones, Daffyd Jones …
Writing her own Script

Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection

Photo London, London (GB)
11 May 2023 – 14 May 2023

with Heather Agyepong, Dorothy Bohm, Sonia Boyce, Juno Calypso, Helen Chadwick, Hannah Collins, Maisie Cousins, Anna Fox, Eliza Hatch, Susan Hiller, Alexis Hunter, Sarah Jones …
Telling Tales. Picture Post and its Legacy.

key photographers of Picture Post magazine

James Hyman Gallery, London (GB)
29 Mar 2022 – 10 Jun 2022

with Bill Brandt, Anna Fox, Ken Grant, Bert Hardy, Nigel Henderson, Paul Hill, David Hurn, Kurt Hutton, Daffyd Jones, Colin Jones, Chris Killip, Karen Knorr …
Here we are - Paris

Burberry

ex-locaux de Liberation, Paris (FR)
26 Jan 2018 – 4 Feb 2018

with Janette Beckman, Jane Bown, Brian Griffin, Daffyd Jones, Colin Jones, Karen Knorr, Alasdair McLellan, Daniel Meadows, Martin Parr, Charlie Phillips, Gosha Rubchinskiy, Ken Russell …
PHotoEspaña 2016

PHotoEspaña, Madrid (ES)
1 Jun 2016 – 28 Aug 2016

with Kristoffer Albrecht, Tete Álvarez, Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Juan Manuel Barrero Bueno, Gabriele Basilico, Lurdes R. Basoli, John Batho, Jordi Bernado, Alphonse Bertillon, Joana Biarnes, Daniel Blaufuks, Koos Breukel …

Events

Photo London 2023

Photo London, London (GB)
11 May 2023 – 14 May 2023

with Bryan Adams, Heather Agyepong, Albarran Cabrera, Maurizio Anzeri, Nobuyoshi Araki, Chantal Elisabeth Ariëns, Jean-Piere Attal, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Wylda Bayron, Federica Belli, Dorothy Bohm, Sonia Boyce …