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A Long Day's Life: The Art of Harold Riley
Topography and the passage of time - the renowned Salford artist turns a keen but affectionate eye upon his home city.
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Overview
This absorbing film portrait reveals how the Salford painter and photographer, a self-described "topographical artist", has devoted himself to recording his home city. We see how the love-hate attitude of the artist to his subject has informed his work, and how a decaying industrial area undergoing great change can indeed be an aesthetically worthy subject for an artist's observant eye.
This film was produced by postgraduate film students at Manchester Polytechnic, now Manchester Metropolitan University.
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