Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Still Collecting
My passion for collecting old photographs recognises few bounds, and a few years ago I managed to acquire a small collection of the original negatives of “stills” from British films from the 1940s and 50s. Such photographs were taken during filming in order to prepare the publicity photos that would be displayed outside cinemas. You might think it is an odd thing to collect, but there again, I’m an odd person.
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Times Certainly Change
Getting somewhat annoyed the other day by some toxic pronouncement by a global potentate, I banged my fist down on my desk, and my smartwatch informed me that it looked as if…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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