Monthly Archives: March 2022

Spring Shadows 2

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Brian

More spring shadows, here at Whistley Hill, Cheltenham, Glous.

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Spring Shadows

Posted on March 25, 2022 by Brian

Anglesey Abbey on 22nd – the flowers were glorious, but this was my favourite scene.

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Five Facets of Photography – Controversy in Photography

Posted on March 24, 2022 by Brian

The Cambridge U3A class met yesterday for Five Facets of Photography –Controversy in Photography, the last in the series.  The previous classes had not shied away from controversy, embracing as they did issues such photography as art, the depiction of … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Controversy in Photography: Jan Saudek

Posted on March 23, 2022 by Brian

During his life in communist Czechoslovakia, Jan was labelled by the totalitarian regime as a pornographer.  He was considered a disturbed artist and was oppressed by authorities.  He lived in poverty using the only room in his basement as his … Continue reading →

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Traces of Erewhon 14

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Brian

Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, first published anonymously in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist, Higgs.

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Five Facets of Photography – Controversy in Photography: Lee Miller

Posted on March 21, 2022 by Brian

During the Second World War, Lee Miller was a war correspondent for Vogue covering the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the opening of concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.  She took this picture scene of one of three people lying dead in an abandoned office at … Continue reading →

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Fen Landscape – Quy Fen

Posted on March 20, 2022 by Brian

Quy Fen, Friday 18th March – first chiffchaff, Phyllaoscopus collybita, of spring.

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Five Facets of Photography – Controversy in Photography: Ethics

Posted on March 18, 2022 by Brian

In December 1971 newly independent Bangladesh guerrillas in Dacca used bayonets to torture and kill four men suspected of collaborating with Pakistani militiamen.  Aside from the morality of what is in effect a summary execution, a controversy surrounding the photos … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Women and Photography

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Brian

The Cambridge U3A class met for Five Facets of Photography – Women and Photography today.  The first three classes included work by 15 women photographers (more will be included in the fifth class). Today we took a more focused look … Continue reading →

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Shingle Street – Final

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Brian

Shingle Street is made up of a massive undulating spinal shingle bank, which runs for a mile and a half from Orford Haven in the north to a Martello tower and Bawdsey Beach in the south, and the eponymous hamlet … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Women in Photography: Alice Austen

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Brian

Alice Austen was a photographer and is recognised as a significant figure in LGBT history, breaking with convention to live with her partner, Gertrude Tate, and making images that subvert gender roles.  Violet Ward published Bicycling for Ladies in 1896. … Continue reading →

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Photography in Fiction: The Photographer’s Wife

Posted on March 13, 2022 by Brian

The Photographer’s Wife (Robert Sole, 1996) is set in the world of late 19th century Egypt.  Three things drive the narrative: the relationship between the photographer and his wife; her emergence as an increasingly creative photographer; and the colonial wrangling … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Women in Photography: Grace Robertson

Posted on March 12, 2022 by Brian

Despite the fact that her socially committed approach to photography chimed with the way that Picture Post celebrated working-class culture and the welfare state, the magazine initially refused to accept Grace Robertson’s proposals for what were seen as ‘women’s subjects’. … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Travellers and Photography: Norman Lewis

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Brian

Norman Lewis is best-known as a travel writer, with books such as Naples ‘44, A Dragon Apparent and Golden Earth.  He’s less well-known as a keen photographer, owner of the R G Lewis chain of photographic shops and post war … Continue reading →

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Traces of Erewhon 11-13

Posted on March 9, 2022 by Brian
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