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Edwin Smith: Photographing Beauty In Everyday Landscapes

Edwin Smith: Photographing Beauty In Everyday Landscapes

"I am an architect by training, a painter by inclination, and a photographer by necessity" - Edwin Smith ...
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Tyne Pride and Fall: Chris Killip’s Photographs Of Britain’s Vanished Industrial Heartlands

Tyne Pride and Fall: Chris Killip’s Photographs Of Britain’s Vanished Industrial Heartlands

"Even then I had a sense that all this was not going to last, though I had no idea how soon it would all be gone" - Chris Killip ...
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The Beatles At Abbey Road On September 12 1963 – Norman Parkinson’s Early Fab Four Photographs

The Beatles At Abbey Road On September 12 1963 – Norman Parkinson’s Early Fab Four Photographs

"I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better" - Norman Parkinson ...
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Extraordinary Pictures of ‘Hippiedilly’ on Hyde Park Corner in 1969

Extraordinary Pictures of ‘Hippiedilly’ on Hyde Park Corner in 1969

Drug taking, couples making love while others look on, a heavy mob armed with iron bars, filth and stench, foul language, that is the scene inside the hippies’ fortress in London’s Piccadilly. These are not rumours but facts, sordid facts which will shock ordinary decent living people. Drug taking, squalor and sex. ...
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Photographs of Singer Françoise Hardy in London

Photographs of Singer Françoise Hardy in London

"In France, the image I had was of a shy girl - a poor lonely girl and not too good-looking. When I went to England, I had another image. I felt the journalists were much more interested in my looks than in my songs." - Françoise Hardy ...
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A Marvellous Collection of Photos of Dame Lesley Lawson aka Twiggy

A Marvellous Collection of Photos of Dame Lesley Lawson aka Twiggy

"I looked through my camera and this face looked back at me and I just just went 'wow'. It was the effect of her looking back at me, I can't find the adjective to describe it. I think it was the eyes, she had such presence. She was gawky but she had a sort of elegance." Barry Lategan ...
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Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs In the 1980s – Before the Big Money Rolled In

Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs In the 1980s – Before the Big Money Rolled In

"Our country's not an island any more. This is the decade in which London will become Europe's capital, having cleared away the out-dated. We've got mile after mile or acre after acre of land for our future prosperity. No other city in the world has got, right at its centre, such an opportunity for profitable progress" - Harold Shand, The Long Good Friday (1981) ...
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‘Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987

‘Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987

There was no Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, no Bullring as we know it today. Instead you had to take your life into your hands as you ventured through the city's subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and long since vanished. ...
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London Retro – Ektachrome Snapshots from the 1960s

London Retro – Ektachrome Snapshots from the 1960s

In 1962 when the first of these photos were taken the photographer was just 13 ...
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Kodachrome Snapshots of the British on The Beach

Kodachrome Snapshots of the British on The Beach

'Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside! I do like to be beside the sea! I do like to stroll along the Prom, Prom, Prom! Where the brass bands play, Tiddely-om-pom-pom!' - John A. Glover-Kind (1907) ...
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Found Colour Snapshots of a Bygone St Ives (1958-1960)

Found Colour Snapshots of a Bygone St Ives (1958-1960)

A wonderful look at how we used to live through a stash of colour slides bought at a car boot sale ...
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Idyllic Victorian Photos of the 1850s English Countryside

Idyllic Victorian Photos of the 1850s English Countryside

Photos used as illustrations for a book, Sunshine in the Country: A Book of Rural Poetry ...
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