Andrew Graham-Dixon reviews Angus McBean: Portraits Began his career in the theatre as mask-maker and scenery designer before turning to full-time theatre photography. McBean is renowned for his theatrical and inventive photography of the 1930s and 1940s....

Steven Pippin's flat on a busy road in south London has bare boards and peeling plaster walls. In the corner of one room, a mattress is rolled up; otherwise, there is no furniture except two chairs, on which we sit, a workbench piled with drills and saws,...