Sepia Town is a great site that I’ve mentioned before that maps historical images, mainly photographs, from cities around the world on to Google maps so you can see from Street View what the places in the pictures look like now. Hidden away in its view of London are a couple of my pictures, taken before 1980 which I think is Sepia Town’s definition of a historical image.
The latest news on the Sepia Town blog is that they now have added some of Atget’s images of Paris to the site for us to enjoy.
There are a few of my own pictures of that city which I might add, when I have the time, but you can already see a selection of the images that I made there in Paris 1973 ,
although the work that I took more consciously based on Atget came a few years later, in Paris Revisited, taken in 1984, which I put on line earlier this year.
Quai de Jemappes / Rue Bichat, 10e, Paris, 1984
The other work from the 1970s that I intend to put on Sepia Town is from Hull (sometimes known as Kingston upon Hull) where at the moment there are no pictures at all. A few of mine are on the Urban Landscapes web site.
Hull Paragon Station