Monthly Archives: February 2013

Gesuati

I came across this picture when I was filing a backlog of negatives.  It was taken on a Leica M6 with a 35 mm Summicron lens using Ilford XP Super.  The first image is a high resolution scan from Ilford; … Continue reading

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Avignon

These figures are neither in nor of the landscape.  They are detached from it and view it in detachment from on high.  They engage with it both visually and through the mediation of illustrated guides.  Tourists, they become temporarily ‘halted … Continue reading

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Back Figure

A literal interpretation of rückenfigur is ‘back figure’.  The faux ami approach to translation might have lead to ‘a figure carrying a rucksack’.  Sadly not, but the diversity of back packs – rarely fashion items – is an interesting facet … Continue reading

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Waterloo

Is this figure looking for someone, waiting for someone?  The other figures in the scene are themselves in rear view, walking away from her.  Does she envy them their purpose, or is she happy just to enjoy the riverscape (and … Continue reading

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Eye Contact

“…but I would have been happy to educate him [HRH] is essential Tube etiquette, such as making no eye contact.”  (Janet Street-Porter, Independent on Sunday, 3rd February 2013) Photo: Piccadilly Line, London, January 2013

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Sweep

Urban ephemera?  Well, when did you last see a chimney sweep? Photo: Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge, Jan 2013

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Cash Society

‘Loomis – Managing cash in society’.  And managing to deliver all those huge legal fees too. Photo: Law Society, Chancery Lane, London, January 2013

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