Study of Louis Martin Olympic weightlifter 1960 by Roger Mayne

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Study of Louis Martin Olympic weightlifter 1960 by Roger Mayne:
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Study of Louis Martin Olympic weightlifter 1960 by Roger Mayne 1929-2014.
Louis George Martin 1936-2015 was a British middle-heavyweight weightlifter. At the Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in 1960 and a silver medal in 1964; he failed in the last (clean and jerk) event in 1968. Between 1959 and 1965 he won four world and four European titles and set four world records, though only two became official.From a vintage copy of Photograms of the Year 1962. (Taken 1960)Mayne is celebrated for his hair-trigger vision of city life, especially photographs of children at play in the mean streets of London in the late 1950s. His grainy, dynamically composed pictures of pickup games,sidewalk ballet, and Teddy Boys and Mods on the prowl in bombed-out neighborhoods (declared uninhabitable and demolished by the end of the 1960s) were considered rude at the time but are now cherished by the British as bittersweet glimpses of a bygone era. This snapshot captures a defensive play by a lithe goalie in a street football game on Brindley Road in Paddington.
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