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40 Year Old Photos
If you think your photos are ignored, then you have to have some sympathy for this photographer, taking 40 years to get his photos recognised.
He was commissined by a gallery who rejected his photos because they were the reality and not a cosy comfort zone. A parochial attitude from the gallery at the time, not hard hitting, which in indsight would have been a leading the way given the depravation in the cominmg decade. A good social documentary to be looked back on now.
Full story here.
He was commissined by a gallery who rejected his photos because they were the reality and not a cosy comfort zone. A parochial attitude from the gallery at the time, not hard hitting, which in indsight would have been a leading the way given the depravation in the cominmg decade. A good social documentary to be looked back on now.
Full story here.
Just shows, what was not of interest because it gave the 'wrong type' of image is now regarded as social history which is so sought after.
Interesting also that not clearly confirming the brief from the original customer lost the first chance to show his work. I also like that he went back a second time to get a different closer up style.
Thanks for the link, Keith, I've bookmarked this.
I have come across quite a few instances where reportage shots have been commissioned in the expectation that they would paint a rosy, positive picture - and the organisers have been taken aback by what they actually received. The truth can hurt.
I have come across quite a few instances where reportage shots have been commissioned in the expectation that they would paint a rosy, positive picture - and the organisers have been taken aback by what they actually received. The truth can hurt.
Seeing these shots remind me of some of my day trips as a kid, Some places the only things that have changed is the clothes, maybe a bit of graffiti and litter added for good measure. As keen photographers most of us like to show stunning seascapes that make people think I want to go there but shots like these makes you think I've been there. Brings back the reality of our memories, like the shot of the oldies reminds me of my Nan, can we go yet ? Waiting for grandad to get out of the pub.
