![]() ![]() “The lives of our parents before we were born is surely our first great mystery,” writes Cumming. The result is a deeply felt, forensic yet ultimately empathetic examination of human motivation and its attendant sorrows, which is as much a social history of the early 20th century as it is the story of one family and its secrets. Laura Cumming’s new book, On Chapel Sands, also uses photographs, paintings and everyday objects in an attempt to resolve a 90-year family mystery: the kidnapping of her mother, then aged three, from a deserted Lincolnshire beach one warm October afternoon in 1929. Its staff seek to convince the new owners not to break up the incomparable collection it houses by using its rare photographs, in a sequence of improvised yet powerfully orchestrated displays, to tell the extraordinary stories of apparently ordinary lives. ![]() In Stephen Poliakoff’s 1999 television drama Shooting the Past, a prestigious British photographic library is threatened by American property developers. ![]()
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