Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Sheffield Shapes
I took the photograph back in the early 1980s, and I messed around with it early yesterday. It snowed a lot back in the early ’80s, and I wandered up and down the back streets of Sheffield taking photographs. It was the shapes that attracted me then, and they still attract me now. Sheffield shapes.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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