Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Street Photography
These days, this photograph would come under the heading of “Street Photography”. When I took it over half a century ago, it came under the heading of “Using The Last Few Shots On A Film Up Before It Was Developed.” These inconsequential shots of random scenes are always the most interesting when viewed from the perspective of “the future”: their dearth of subject and richness of background provide a unique view of the past.
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Treasured Map
My brother contacted me from the other side of the world yesterday to suggest that my “monumental sculpture” photo was not taken in Sowerby Bridge. I have since been able to persuade…
Monumental Sculpture
One should be able to nominate buildings as items of monumental sculpture, thus ensuring their preservation not for what they contain, but simply for the way they look, the shape they make,…
On The Slopes
Photography was made for groups. Get a group together – be it a group of friends, family, fellow workers, or ten-pin bowlers – and one of the first reactions is to get…
Picture History
My photo dates back to the 1960s and shows the junction of Cripplegate and Mulcture Hall Road in Halifax. There’s a textbook-full of history in the buildings and a library’s…
Windows 80
I call this photograph Windows 80, not as a tribute to some upcoming Microsoft operating system, but because it was taken in 1980 looking out of the window of my…
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