‘You can chart the change in the nation through its photographs’
Children playing in front of a corner shop, Barnwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1963 (Colin Jones) Just over the road from the Royal Academy, Margaret Thatcher’s Spitting Image puppet leers out of an arresting window display. The former prime minister is there to welcome visitors to the Center for British Photography, an intriguing new art space that has just opened up on Jermyn Street alongside quintessentially British brands like Paxton & Whitfield (cheese) and Hawes & Curtis (suits). Across the doorway from Peter Fluck and Roger Law’s creation of foam, another display shows Thatcher joined by members of her cabinet, also…