Antony Gormley statue at Crosby london It gives me the chills

It gives me the chills just looking back at this

” says Thorpe

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

his crestfallen rival

- Jonny Weeks

Antony Gormley statue at Crosby london It gives me the chillsIn 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