UNKNOWN GROUP OF SEVEN AND A WALL Seven people and a wall. Seven mid-century faces: post-war, post-depression - all tweed jackets and Oxford bags. That first, troubling half century is behind them - the future is awaiting them.
Category: Pictures From Nowhere
Stone Antiquities And Tree Trunk Props
This little Victorian Carte de Visite dates from a time when photographs were for special occasions, rather than the result of a selfie-click on a smartphone. Young men or women would have their photographs taken on birthdays and holidays, wearing their very best clothes, and posing against a background of stone antiquities and tree-trunk props (the props … Continue reading Stone Antiquities And Tree Trunk Props
Conversations
Two Couples On The Prom (1930s) There was a time when people would dress up to walk along the prom. A time of hats and coats and canes. A time of conversations through pipe-clenched teeth.
Removals, Renovations And Warehousing
Sometimes, old photographs lay around for ages, decades, centuries - holding within them images of great beauty. They are warehouses of history, repositories of memories, constantly being removed from pillar to post, from old cupboard to old shoebox. And then someone comes and with the help of a little digital renovation, a new image emerges … Continue reading Removals, Renovations And Warehousing
The Aching Question
A photograph of unknowns from who knows where, on the back of which it gives the date: 24 June 1918. One is left with the aching question: did he make it?
Pictures From Nowhere : A Thing Of Beauty
An old faded print of so little significance that it has been long abandoned. A faded caption on the reverse commemorating faded relationships. A thing of beauty. Aunt Lily And Grandma Nunn
Pictures From Nowhere : Busy
There is nothing better than a busy photograph. Two tin baths, half a skirt, a branch cutting through a frown: this 1926 photo contains enough for a lengthy essay.
Trio With A Bow
Unknown Group : c1918 Sometimes you don't need to know who the people are. You don't need to know their story: their past, present or future. Sometimes the image itself is enough.
Oaks And Stone
PICTURES FROM NOWHERE : OAKS AND STONE, RUPERRA, 7th APRIL 1932 An old photograph of a young man walking near Ruperra Castle in Wales in 1932. The photo is entitled "Oaks and Stone", but that poetic title is the extent of my knowledge. This is a print from a tiny album of photographs taken in … Continue reading Oaks And Stone
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