Consider the journey if you will - from a photographic studio in Crefeld in the late 19th century to a box at the end of my desk ....
Category: Pictures From Nowhere
Smiling Faces
If you are locked-in, socially isolated, tired of twiddling your thumbs: what better to do than to go searching for photographs. You can't get out, however; so the search has to be conducted from the safety of your desktop. You don't even need a stack of pictures: old photographs have layer after layer of art … Continue reading Smiling Faces
Pictures From Nowhere : April 2020
FOUR CRAZY GOLFERS : Who they are, I have no idea, but don't they look to be having fun! The date could be anywhere between the mid 1930s and the mid 1950s. Why they seem to be wearing their raincoats the wrong way round remains a mystery.
Three Women On The Beach
There is something particularly engaging about this photograph of three women on a beach, which must date from the 1940s or early 1950s. The beach may be stoney rather than sandy, but the three women are wonderful pictures of their time. Their hairstyles could have been created by the make-up department of some twenty-first century … Continue reading Three Women On The Beach
Eminent Victorians
I am not sure if I was attracted to this little Victorian portrait by the look in the eye of the sitter or because in was taken in the studios of Sydney Barton in New Brighton. I remember New Brighton well from childhood seaside trips (the name "New Brighton" was a triumph for positively-spun nomenclature … Continue reading Eminent Victorians
That Look
A rather old and faded photograph, the victim of too many years stored on damp and dusty shelves. But that look shines through; a look divorced of style and fashion. Beautiful.
All That Is Given Is The Moment
A classic Picture From Nowhere : I know not who, where or when. Three carefully posed men, three carefully composed faces. You can write their past or invent their future. All that is given is the moment.
The Look
There is something very appealing about this old photograph which must date from the first couple of decades of the twentieth century. It is the look, which is pitched somewhere between haughty and flirtatious. There is a dedication in the bottom corner, but all that remains legible is the word "love". The photograph comes from … Continue reading The Look
Stories To Tell From India
This old picture is not exactly from nowhere, but from an album of photographs taken in India in the 1930s. What stories could be told by these nine men?
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