June 2011
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Pablo Neruda - Walking Around (1933)
London 2011
Image © Julian Lass 2011
London, 1933
It so happens that I tire of being a man
It so happens that I’ll enter the tailors or the cinemas
withered, faint, impenetrable like a cygnet with feathery down
swimming in a livid sea of ash.
The smell of hairdressers makes me cry like a baby
All I want is quiet, no stones, no down-feather
I don’t want to see any shops, any...
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Ektachrome
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Pre Photoshop Press
How interesting, this photo from 1939. The caption, from the long-dead Daily Sketch, says: But what really fascinates me is the level of retouching in order to make the image newsworthy. Elizabeth’s hat and lapels have been lightened, the man behind her has had his glasses outlined, the shape of a man in front (right) has been literally created out of shadows, and the advert to the right...
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Peter Mitchell
Image © Peter Mitchell/Camera Press
I found Leeds-based Peter Mitchell’s image of London in the 1970s while going through the archives at Camera Press. I was so struck by it that I started researching Mitchell and I’d love to see more of his work. Mitchell’s work was shown in Tate Britain’s 2007 show How We Are: Photographing Britain, and the accompanying book describes...