{"id":11012,"date":"2020-06-25T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=11012"},"modified":"2020-06-24T11:03:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T11:03:46","slug":"1986-page-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=11012","title":{"rendered":"1986 Page 12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\"Leeke<\/a>\n<\/div>
Leeke St, Pentonville, Camden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Page 12 of 1986 London Photographs<\/a>
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1986 was the year I began seriously to photograph the fabric of London, and the number of photographs on Flickr, 1,370 reflects this, although I took several times this number, mainly in a series of planned walks exploring different areas of the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"76-78,<\/a>\n<\/div>
Caledonian Rd, Kings Cross, Islington<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A few of those I’ve not digitised are near duplicates, though usually I only took a single image of each subject, often taking some time to consider the best viewpoint and sometimes waiting for people or traffic to leave me a clearer view. Although I was working on 35mm and almost always hand-held, my approach was generally like that of a photographer using a larger camera – and the 35mm Olympus shift lens gave me much of the flexibility of large-format camera movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Nat<\/a>\n<\/div>
Nat West Tower, Old Broad St, City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had tried using 4×5″ cameras, a first with a monorail and then with an MPP, but found them too restrictive. Heavy to carry any distance, slow to set up and even with several magazines and a small pile of dark slides I was very limited in how many exposures I could make in a session. The movements on the MPP were also fairly limited, and the Olympus shift lens was more useful for this. While I admired the quality of large format results – and tried at times to emulate it by using Kodak Technical Pan – it wasn’t practical (or affordable) for the kind of large-scale project I had embarked on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Venus,<\/a>\n<\/div>
Venus, Canonbury Rd, Islington<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Most of these walks in October 1986 were in Islington, where I walked around areas including Clerkenwell, Pentonville, Canonbury, Barnsbury, Highbury and Islington itself, though I think I occasionally strayed across the borough border into the City of London and Camden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Bartlett<\/a>\n<\/div>
Bartlett Export Packers, Regent’s Canal, Islington<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I travelled on public transport, using either the North London Line or the Underground, and it was sometimes easier (or cheaper) to travel to stations outside the borough – such as Bank (then still ‘City’), still a ‘London Terminus’ of British Rail Southern Region until 1994. I didn’t often use buses, partly because it was still rather harder than now to find out where they might go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"St<\/a>\n<\/div>
St Agnes Place, Kennington, Lambeth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There are also a few pictures from south of the river, around Walworth and Kennington, where we used to go to a monthly meeting with friends, arriving for Sunday lunch. I’d often leave early in the morning for a few hours of walking and photography before these meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pictures here are just a few of those I now find more interesting from the page, but there are many others worth seeing in the hundred that make up Page 12 of 1986 London Photographs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated, are taken by and copyright of Peter Marshall, and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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