Antony Gormley statue at Crosby london to the more modern handheld

to the more modern handheld cameras used to capture this image – a visual reminder of Manchester’s changing urban landscape in the 1960s

has a caption scrawled at the bottom: “Searching out the Asian vote in Blackburn

It gives me the chills just looking back at this

- Jonny Weeks

his crestfallen rival

Antony Gormley statue at Crosby london to the more modern handheldIn June 2005, the sculptor Antony Gormley installed the first of 100 eerie cast iron figures on Crosby beach in Merseyside, each modelled on his own body. The late Guardian photographer Don McPhee was there to capture the moment. Dotted over a nearly two mile stretch of shoreline, the figures become by turns submerged and revealed by the ebb and flow of the tides. Initially the sculptures were erected at Crosby on a temporary basis after being shown