Iain Mackenzie

Man Reading Newspaper, Glasgow

About this artwork

Many of Iain Mackenzie’s images of Glasgow in the 1970s make use of the graphics found around the city, with at times playful and at times thought-provoking results. Here, the image raises more questions than it answers. The cropping of the well-worn sentence ‘wish you were here’ gives it a double meaning. The photograph shows a Glasgow that has since disappeared, a transience heightened by the past tense in ‘you were here’.

Published February 2022

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Iain Mackenzie

Iain Mackenzie