More Mizhenka photographs. The first is the upper Hornsey Road, the others are Elthorne Park, which is probably out of bounds for this blog but who cares.
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Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Monday, 6 February 2012
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
John Gay, Lewis Rogers Junk Shop, 63 Hornsey Road
The photographer Hans Gohler was born in 1909 in Karlsruhe.
It sold 'anything of interest', which seems to have meant dolls' heads in vases, grandmother clocks, chandeliers,
lamp bases, miniature chests of drawers and horns.
John Gay died in 1999 and left his photographs to English Heritage, who've put them online. Go look.
In 1933 he moved to England and changed his name to John Gay (after the Beggar's Opera composer). He took pictures of every day life in the city, railway stations and Dylan Thomas.
Sometime between 1962 and 1964 he took these three photographs of a second-hand store on the Hornsey Road:
It sold 'anything of interest', which seems to have meant dolls' heads in vases, grandmother clocks, chandeliers,
lamp bases, miniature chests of drawers and horns.
John Gay died in 1999 and left his photographs to English Heritage, who've put them online. Go look.
Saturday, 1 October 2011
Jane Hobson's photographs
Looking around for pictures of the Hornsey Road, I came across Jane Hobson's work.
I love her photographs of the people behind the small businesses on the Hornsey Road and I love her
description of the project:
'a personal project of editorial portraiture of people who run and work in the small businesses along the Hornsey Road, N19. A fascinating, friendly and diverse bunch of people who are making the project absolutely delightful by allowing me into their worlds. I am learning more about my neighbours this year than in the previous ten! Why didn’t I start sooner?!'
Her photographs are really worth looking at, partly because they are beautiful, and partly because they show what a lot of initiative and originality and hard work there is on this scruffy road.
(Edited to correct errors)
'a personal project of editorial portraiture of people who run and work in the small businesses along the Hornsey Road, N19. A fascinating, friendly and diverse bunch of people who are making the project absolutely delightful by allowing me into their worlds. I am learning more about my neighbours this year than in the previous ten! Why didn’t I start sooner?!'
Her photographs are really worth looking at, partly because they are beautiful, and partly because they show what a lot of initiative and originality and hard work there is on this scruffy road.
(Edited to correct errors)
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