Fine Print: Welsh Miners, Wales, 1950 Warehouse and the resilience of partnership

and the resilience of partnership

The photographer’s daughter

Hoepker was at that time a photo reporter for Stern magazine

many previously unpublished

He went on to found the International Center of Photography in 1964

Fine Print: Welsh Miners, Wales, 1950 Warehouse and the resilience of partnershipIn 1950, LIFE magazine sent W. Eugene Smith to cover the British election between incumbent Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee and resurgent former Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill. This striking image of three generations of Welsh miners, mired in hopelessness and poverty, symbolized the forgotten people whose lives Attlees policies sought to improve. His election in 1945 had ushered in broad social welfare programs across Great