{"id":11008,"date":"2020-06-24T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=11008"},"modified":"2020-06-22T15:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T15:02:41","slug":"london-1986-page-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=11008","title":{"rendered":"London 1986 – Page 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\"Temple<\/a>\n<\/div>
Temple Bar, Strand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Page 11 of my album London 1986<\/a> has some of my favourite black and white pictures I took that year, at least in London, and is centred around the City of London, with pictures from its northen extremities in Moorgate, Smithfield and the Barbican and close to the City in the surrounding London Boroughs, particularly Islington, where my walks took me around Farringdon, Clerkenwell, Old St and Finsbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Atlas<\/a>\n<\/div>
Atlas Paper Works, Newington Causeway, Newington, Southwark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I drifted into Camden around Kings Cross, Lambeth close to Waterloo, Southwark at Newington and The Borough, Covent Garden, Temple and Strand in Westminster and Whitechapel and Aldgate in Tower Hamlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Wig<\/a>\n<\/div>
Wig & Pen Club, Strand, Westminster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Those who have been following the colour work I’ve posted in the series of slices through London will recognise a number of the places in these pictures, particularly in the album TQ31- London Cross-section which I’ve written about recently. One of them is the Wigt & Pen club on the Strand, still very much in business back in 1986, but which closed in 2003. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Lloyd's<\/a>\n<\/div>
Lloyd’s Diary, Amwell St, Kings Cross, Islington<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Occasionally the black and white and colour versions show a similar viewpoint, but usually in black and white I was more concerned with documenting a building or place as a part of the city while the colour work was often more concerned with detail and particularly colour. The black and white is generally more of a document, more objective and the colour more personal, more of a response to the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Frazier<\/a>\n<\/div>
LowerMarsh, Waterloo, Lambeth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The routes that I researched and plotted were determined by my desire to try to document the whole of London, and to photograph its significant and typical buildings, streets, squares etc. I think it was largely for practical reasons that I did this in black and white, partly because of cost, but more that black and white was able to handle a much higher dynamic range than colour film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"King<\/a>\n<\/div>
King James St, The Borough, Southwark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But black and white back then was still the primary medium of photography, both in camera and in publication and exhibition. I’d worked for over 15 years primarily as a black and white photographer and almost all of my published work had been in black and white. Looking at the pictures now it is usually the black and white that still interests me most. Things have very much changed, particularly with the move to digital. I only work in colour and can’t ever see myself going back to black and white. And I seldom see black and white by other photographers – particularly not by younger photographers who have never really served their time with black and white – without thinking it would have been better in colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Page 11 of my album London 1986<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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