Aerial View of the Barbican Centre Photograph by Peter Bloomfield Size:small and with graphic design by

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Aerial View of the Barbican Centre Photograph by Peter Bloomfield Size:small and with graphic design byA view of the Barbican Centre front nestled in the Barbican Estate (October 1981). Photographer Peter Bloomfield was commissioned by the first Managing Director of the Barbican Centre to photograph the completion of the Barbican and gifted his entire collection of over 1,400 negatives to the arts centre. The rediscovered archive reveals the ambition and scale of the construction of what The Queen called 'one of the modern wonders of the world'; from