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Mondrian’s Market
Black and white, light and dark: Bradford’s new Darley Street Market seemed to present photo opportunities with all the enthusiasm of an overstocked trader’s stall. There were loads of straight lines – Piet Mondrian goes to Market – but there was also a slightly bleached quality to it, almost as though Hockney himself had visualised it.
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Do Seagulls Screech In Cleethorpes?
Whenever I look back at the photos I took in Cleethorpes in the 1980s, I am reminded of the trauma caused by the gradual loss of my hearing during that decade. For…
Spring And All Souls
The panel which I featured a couple of days ago, showing Edward Akroyd laying the foundation stone for All Souls’ Church, is nothing compared to the rather grand bronze statue of Colonel…
The Girl With The Throwaway Glance
19th century photography is photography of the constrained: studio photography of fixed poses, fixed smiles and fixed emotions. The twentieth century brought cheaper cameras and that meant photography of the…
Tired Souls
Right next to the Grade 1 listed All Souls’ Church in Halifax, there is a statue of the Halifax mill-owner, social reformer, Member of Parliament and church-builder, Edward Akroyd. On…
Courage Brewing
This was Courage’s Anchor Brewhouse, which was next to Tower Bridge in London, back in the 1970s. When I took the photograph, breweries were still big and located in the…
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