Copyright Humphrey Spender/Bolton MBC. Collection of Bolton Museum Libraries and Archives Service
The Worktown archive of Humphrey Spender's photographs consists of roughly 850 exposures. Shooting digital a photographer might easily shoot this quantity or more in a day, which of course leaves you with far more photos than are ever be needed. Even Spender's modest 850 is difficult to make sense of at first, like meeting a large group of people- some have more recognisable faces (or hair) than others, and so they become immediate favourites.
