Fine Print: Welsh Miners, Wales, 1950 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) only finding time to take

only finding time to take his film to the agency to be developed when the protestors slept

and all throughout the South

and found that these areas are so numerous that they’re never more than a two-hour drive apart

to cinematic vistas

I ran across the field

Fine Print: Welsh Miners, Wales, 1950 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) only finding time to takeIn 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