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Category Archives: Photography
Walking to Scotland 1965. Part 7. Glen Coe, Fort William….
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
Posted in Photography, Political & Social History, Postcards
Tagged Aonach Dubh, Aonach Eagach, Ardarroch, Ardintoul 1960s, Ardnashellach youth hostel, Aviemore 1960s, Aviemore developement 1960s, Beinn Bhan, Beinn Fhada, BeinnLiath Mhor, Betterware salesman, Carrbridge 1960s, Drumbuie crofts, Duirinish 1960s, Fort William 1960's, Giovanni's Room, Glen Coe, Glen Coe youth hostel 1960s, Glen Nevis hostel 1960s, Glenelg, I've Got a Tiger in My Tank, Inverness 1960s, James Baldwin, Ken Macintosh band, Kinlochleven 1960s, Kintail Mountains, Kishorn youth hostel, Kyle of Lochalsh 1960s, Kyleakin ferry 1960s, Kylerheah ferry 1960s, Letterfearn 1960s, Liathatch, Lipton's store Aviemore, Loch Cluanie, Loch Dughaill, Loch Duich, Loch Linnhe, Loch Morlich youth hostel 1960s, Lochcarron, MacBraynes Royal Mail Highland buses, Ordnance Survey One Inch Map 26 Lochcarron, Plockton 1960s, Rank Road Inn Loch Morlich, Ratagan youth hostel 1960s, River Carron, Sgorr Ruadh, Steall waterfall, Stromeferry 1960s, Vesta beef curry
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Postcards to Mrs Pye
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
Posted in Photography, Political & Social History, Postcards
Tagged Aachen Ponttor, Brandville Gardens Ilford, Britannia Airways, Cranbrook Road Ilford, David Lean, Euravia, Exeter, Frank Gratton Mullion, Gany postcards Paris, Gene Kelly, Geneva Place du Bourg de Four, Gweek Cornwall, Interlaken Schynige Platte Bahn, Katherine Hepburn, Lauterbrunnen, Manor Road Ilford, Menton Alpes-Maritime, Paris, Paris L'Arc de Triomphe, Penpol Postcards, Sporthotel Igls, Summertime film, Venice
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Photo Book London Town 54 now Online
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 _________________
Posted in Photography, Political & Social History
Tagged 3 Coins in the Fountain, Emperor Haile Selassie State Visit London 1954, Hans Richard Griebe, London Bobby 1954, London Town 54, Oxford Street 1954, Pete Grafton, Regent Street 1954, Three Coins in the Fountain, Three Squaddies 1954
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Godard, Cohn-Bendit & The Disappearing Cigar
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
Posted in Photography, Political & Social History
Tagged anarchist, anarcho-syndicalism, Anver Metro station, Aperture publishers, Benito Mussolini, BNP Parabis, Chairman Mao, Christopher Booker, Closely Observed Trains, Cultural Revolution, Czech Press Agency, Daily Telegraph, Danny Cohn-Bendit, Dubcek, Europe-Ecologie Party, Firemens Ball, French Green Party, Germany Green Party, Good Soldier Svejk, Gustav Husak, Harbin, Intimate Lighting, Ivan Passer, Jean-Luc Godard, Jiri Menzell, Josef Koudelka, Karl Marx, La Cause du Peuple, La Grande Bazar, Ladislav Bielik, Larks on a String, Left wing Communism an Infantile Disorder, Lenin, Li Zhensheng, Maigret, Marxist-Leninism, Mary Robinson Irish President, Milos Foreman, My Sweet Little Village, Nigel Farage, Ostrava, Paris May Days 1968, Pierrot Le Fou, Radio Prague, Radio Praha, Raoul Coutard, Raymond Durgnat, Seclusion Near a Wood, Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968, Subtitlescafedalston, Sunday Times, Telerama, The Films of Jean-Luc Godard Studio Vista, Torst Publishers Prague, Trotsky, UKIP, Vaclav Havel, Vaclav Klaus, Viktor Kolar
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Christmas on Ice: Hamburg, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Paris.
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
“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
Posted in Photography, Political & Social History, Second World War, Social History
Tagged Agfa 16 mm cine camera, Amsterdam, Bell & Howell 16 mm cine camera, Dutch 322 RAF Squadron, Gavaert Ridax, Grote Markt Haarlem 2006., Grote Markt Haarlem May 1940, Haarlem, Het Fotoarchief van Prins Bernhard, Juliana & Bernhard, Juliana & Bernhard 9-5-1940, Kaiser Wilhelm II Doorn, Leica, Leopild III, New York Times Nazis Invade Holland, Prince Bernard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Queen Wilhelmina 11-5-1940, Robert Bruce Lockhart, The Hongerwinter
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Nelson’s Column & The Eiffel Tower / Photos: Pete Grafton
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
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Tagged Eiffel Tower, London, London Rush Hour, Paris, Trafalgar Square, Troacadero
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The Price on the Queen’s Head (Postcard series…)
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
Posted in Photography, Political & Social History, Postcards
Tagged Anderby Creek Lincolnshire, Banf, Bournemouth, Cirencester Church, Deutsche Post, Girvan, Leven, Loch Rannoch, Minard Castle Argyllshire, Nairn, Perthshire, Picture Post Card, Postage stamps, Reeperbahn St. Pauli, Royal Mail, Schiehallion, Scotland, The Sma' Glen Perthshire
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Back in the DDR: photos from a recent past
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
Posted in Photography, Political & Social History
Tagged Atrium Weimar, Aufbau Verlag, Bavaria, Berlin, Berlin FC, Berlin Haupbahnhof, Berlin Wall, Buchenwald, Carl Zeiss, Carl Zeiss Platz, DDR, Die Linke, Erfurt, GDR, Hagenow, Hamburg, Harald Hauswald, Helsinforser Strasse, Honecker, Jena, Jenoptic, Lars, Marxist-Leninist, Mecklenborg-Western Pomerania, National Socialists, Nazis, Ossis, Ostkreuz S Bahn, Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Schonefeld, Schott AG, Schwerin, St Pauli FC, Stasi, Thuringia, Trabant, Weimar, Wessis
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Why Not Switzerland?
___________________________________________ 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
Posted in Photography, Political & Social History
Tagged anarchism, Bakunin, Basel, Bern, Britain in the European Union, Cambridge University Press, Direct democracy, European Union, FASS-90, Geneva, Geneva Conventions, Graham Greene, Hugh Thomas, John Calvin, John Knox, Jonathan Steinberg, Jura, Jura watchmakers, Kropotkin, Lausanne, Lauterbrunnen, Lenin, Murren, Orson Welles, Red Cross Museum, referendums, Roschti, Spanish Civil War, Switzerland, the Red Cross, Vevey, Wengen, Why Switzerland?
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London Town ’54
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
Posted in Photography, Political & Social History
Tagged 1950's clothes, 1950's style, Glamis Road Shadwell, Hardinge Street Shadwell, Juniper Street Shadwell, Lyons Corner House, Oxford Street, Photos London 1954, Shadwell Basin, Soho, Southend on Sea, Watney Street Shadwell, Westbourne Grove
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Elvis in Photography
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
Posted in Music, Photography, Political & Social History
Tagged Alfred Wertheimer, B.B.King, Bill Doggett, Bobby Blue Bland, Brook Benton, Col. Parker, Ellis Auditorium Memphis, Elvis 56: In the Beginning, Elvis Presley, Ernest C. Withers, Fats Domino, Hound Dog, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimi Hendrix, Little Richard, Memphis Russwood Stadium, Million Dollar Quintet, Ray Charles, Rufus Thomas, Sam Phillips, Shirley & Lee, The Great Life Photographers, The Memphis Blues Again, The Moonglows
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Robert Doisneau and the Paris suburbs
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
Two Ideologies – One Truncheon
National Socialism or International Socialism? Spot the difference? Images and ideology. For the answer, see the Post “Two Ideologies – One Camera”.
