Face: Shape and Angle: Helen Muspratt, Photographer

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Born into a civil service family in India in 1907, Helen Muspratt was a lifelong communist, a member of the Cambridge intellectual milieu of the 1930s, and a working mother at a time when such a role was unusual for women of her class. She was also a pioneering photographer, creating an extraordinary body of work in many different styles and genres

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'Jessica Sutcliffe's book, painstakingly researched and wonderfully written, will supply yet one more piece in the photo-historical jigsaw which is the history of women's photography.'
Val Williams, author of Women Photographers, The Other Observers

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Jessica Sutcliffe is an architect specialising in historic buildings. She is Helen Muspratt's daughter and the owner of her archive