Frohe Weihnachten aus Norddeutschland 2019. Happy Christmas from north Germany, 2019 _________________________________ Lüneburg Sonntag, Dezember 9, 2019 _____________________________ Travemünde Dienstag, Dezember 11, 2019. _________________________ Lübeck Dienstag, Dezember 10, 2019. ______________________ Hamburg Mittwoch, Dezember 11, 2019. ________________________ Lübeck Dienstag, Dezember 10, … Continue reading
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One Day (Oh what a day) in Paris, Nov. 18, 2009. (Algérie 1 – Egypte 0) photos Pete Grafton _______________________________ I had three cameras with me. A pre-1939 camera for black and white, and two for colour, one of which … Continue reading
Colour Photos of 1950s France ______________________________ A collection of Kodachrome slides from the Pete Grafton Collection. What follows are Kodachrome slides taken by an American couple on holiday in France circa 1956. The year is a guess, based on clothes … Continue reading
Bert Hardy: The Complete Photographer. Photos by…? Photos by Bert Hardy, all of them. _____________________________________ All above photos are by British photographer Bert Hardy, 1913 – 1995. He was almost to the year an exact contemporary of the marvellous … Continue reading
Walking to Scotland 1965 Journey’s End Part 8: The Cairngorms, Perth to Glasgow and a day and night hitch back to London. The Story so Far…. Walking Aonach Eagach. The Warden’s husband with a penchant for blokes. A Tiger … Continue reading
Walking to Scotland 1965. Part 7. Glen Coe, Fort William and Glen Nevis, Kyle of Lochalsh and Kishorn. East to Inverness. Part 7 is dedicated to the memory of Fred, Kyle of Lochalsh warden, Willie, North Strome warden, Anne, Kishorn … Continue reading
Postcards to Mrs Pye Postcards to Mrs Pye is part of the “Occasional Postcards” series. Mrs Pye, along with Mr Pye, lived in Brandville Gardens, Ilford, Essex, nine miles to the east of London. In the late 1950s, when this small … Continue reading
Photo Book London Town 54 now Online londontown54.com Photographs taken in London by Hans Richard Griebe of Kiel between August and October in 1954. The link is here: londontown54.com _________________
Godard, Cohn-Bendit & The Disappearing Cigar Former anarchist agitator Danny Cohn-Bendit, left and Agit-Prop Marxist film maker Jean- Luc Godard on the cover of Télérama, May, 2010. These days Godard has swapped his proletarian Gauloises for the plutocrat cigar. Now let’s … Continue reading
Photos by Pete Grafton Christmas on Ice: Hamburg, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Paris. Hamburg, Eisbahn Planten un Blomen, Neustadt. Glasgow, George Square. Edinburgh, Duddingston Loch Paris, Hotel de Ville. Happy Christmas Everyone.
“Juliana & Bernhard. 9-5-1940” Le Patron spotted this photograph in a bric-a-brac shop in Haarlem in 2005, and bought it for €1.50. For a while he didn’t realise the significance of the photograph, until he discovered that on the 10th of May, 1940,the day … Continue reading
Nelson’s Column and The Eiffel Tower Nelson’s Column, Rush Hour, sun setting in the West. 5.30 pm, 2nd October, 2007 The Eiffel Tower from Trocadero, midday, light fog. 22nd April, 2008 Photos: copyright Pete Grafton. For commercial use, contact Le … Continue reading
The Price on the Queen’s Head The cost of sending a postcard in Britain was relatively stable between 1956 to decimalisation in 1971. In the examples below, between 1956 to 1968, a period of 12 years, the price increased by one penny. … Continue reading
Back in the DDR: photos from a recent past Photos taken in the former DDR 2000 – 2009, using German cameras made between 1932 and 1959. All photos by Pete Grafton, except where stated. The Deutsche Demokratische Republik: DDR (German Democratic … Continue reading
___________________________________________ W H Y N O T S W I T Z E R L A N D ? “Switzerland is a special and fascinating place. Its unique institutions, its direct democracy, multi-member executives, absence of strikes, … Continue reading
March 2014: Additional photos from Shadwell, East London added, and identified. Scroll two thirds of the way down – Le Patron. London Town ’54 A large scrapbook of photos bought on ebay, with line drawings and ephemera Trafalgar Square, … Continue reading
Where is the King? Photo books celebrating 150 years of the Art of Photography, published around the time that the Twentieth Century was on the way out, were noticeably lacking one photo – that of Elvis. These books had photos … Continue reading
Robert Doisneau: I go to Paris every day, but I can’t get rid of the impression that I’m a visitor. My suburban childhood sticks to my skin. Paris was on the other side of the city walls. I used to … Continue reading
National Socialists used the Leica. International socialists used Leica copies. The images were the same. These photos were taken in the German Democratic Republic, and published in the DDR’s Seht,welche Kraft!, Berlin, 1971, as was the photo of the mandolin … Continue reading
