Audio Descriptions: A Brief Revolution

Audio descriptions of five photographs in the exhibition A Brief Revolution: photography, architecture and social space in the Manplan project.

Black and white photograph of families talking over their shared low garden wall with laundry hanging.

Audio Descriptions: A Brief Revolution

Audio descriptions of five photographs in the exhibition A Brief Revolution: photography, architecture and social space in the Manplan project.

A Brief Revolution: photography, architecture and social space in the Manplan project is an exhibition about an ambitious survey of architecture and town planning in late 1960s Britain, called Manplan. It used photographic work by leading photojournalists and street photographers to powerfully articulate the theme of each issue.

These audio descriptions have been produced by Eleanor Margolies.

Biography:

Eleanor Margolies is a writer and audio describer. She has a background in puppetry and theatre design, with interests in ecology and the role of the senses in performance. She audio describes in museum, theatre and dance contexts,

Audio Description Transcript of Introduction to A Brief Revolution

Below: Peter Baistow, High-rise flats and multi-storey car park, Birmingham, 1970, ‘Manplan 5: Religion’ in Architectural Review, 1970 Mar.Courtesy Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections

Black and white photograph of a multi-story parking lot and road, angled upward from left to right, in front of a tall block of flats nearly filling the background.

Audio description transcript for High-rise flats and multi-story car park

Below: Tom Smith, Chatsworth Street school and high-rise housing block overlooking the cleared site, Liverpool, 1969, ‘Manplan 4: The Continuing Community (education)’ in Architectural Review, 1970 Jan.Courtesy Architectural Press Archive/RIBA Collection

Black and white photograph of a landscape, with an upturned tin bath and fire in the foreground, flattened earth in the middle ground, and a Victorian school and high rises in the background.

Transcript for Audio Description of Chatsworth Street School

Below: Tony Ray-Jones, Low-rise housing, Tavy Bridge, Thamesmead, Greenwich, London, 1970,‘Manplan 8: Housing’ Architectural Review,1970 Sep. Courtesy Architectural Press Archive/RIBA Collections

Black and white photograph of two children pushing toy prams in a concrete, open space with stairs, and another child riding a bicycle outside a housing complex.

Transcript of Audio Description for Low-rise Housing

Below: Tony Ray-Jones, Private terraced houses on the Old Kent Road opposite Camelot Street Estate, London, 1970, ‘Manplan 8: Housing’ in Architectural Review, 1970 Sep. Courtesy Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections

Black and white photograph of neighbours speaking to each other over a garden wall.

Transcript for Audio Description of Private Terraced Houses

Below: Tony Ray Jones Resident posing for the photographer, Pepys Estate, Deptford, London, 1970 ‘Manplan 8: Housing’, Architectural Review, 1970 Sept. Courtesy Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections

Black and white photograph of person sitting in a chair in a flat, arms folded looking to camera.

Transcript of Audio Description for Resident Posing