A trip to London and a visit to the
Grauniad Newsroom which currently has an exhibition of the “Unknown Bown”, a photographer of Prodigious Talent.
I was convinced after seeing it that my memory only graduated to colour from black and white (as far as I know she only worked in this medium) after about 1965. The Gypsy Child, Maidstone ’61 is a real stunner. By-election, Rochdale, ’58, is an interesting storyboard of politics at the time. I think the name of the candidate on the leaflets carried by the people in the shot was Jack McCann. If it is possible go and see it. Be shocked at how parts of England in the 50’s and 60’s looked like a failed communist state.
If you’ve got it you can plough a singular furrow to great effect!
Visits to Hampstead Heath and Anglesey Abbey convinced me that, even if you have no talent, a dodgy, digital, daguerreoista, with a bog standard point and shoot can hardly fail in decently lit, autumn arborial surroundings.
And of course it was too tempting to miss a snapper snapped.
Apologies to the woman whoever she is.
