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Books: John Chillingworth, Picture Post Photographer
A new collection of Picture Post photographer John Chillingworth's images shows a master craftsman at work, says JOHN GREEN

John Chillingworth, Picture Post Photographer

(Dewi Lewis, £19.99)

Before mass access to television and the ubiquitousness of cheap miniature cameras, photographic images retained a value and importance unimaginable to us today, in our world of over-saturated imagery.

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