Bastion of Liberalism, world financial centre, multi-cultural city, London has always shown herself to me as an exhibitionist. Bursting with exuberant growth and free from complexes, London presents unpredictable contrasts. Her disorderly modern architecture shoots up all over the place, right through the centre of the older city, which is industrial and sometimes austere. Legendary symbols which have always identified her are exaggerated without restraint. Her people are fleeting and transitory, they always have to go faster.
Photographs’Manuel Cohen throws innovative perspectives on the city of London and her transformations and does so in the twinkling of an eye.
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