MetaFilter posts tagged with London and photography

London Shop Fronts

nthdegx — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:57:19 -0800

Airstrip One

plexi — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:55:10 -0800

London police are now deleting tourists' photos because "photographing anything to do with transport is strictly forbidden."

A survey of London's remaining professional darkrooms

nthdegx — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:05:05 -0800

A survey of London's remaining professional darkrooms

Picture London without Londoners

Kattullus — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:24:17 -0800

Abandoned London is a Flickr set by photographer IanVisits of London on Christmas morning when the city is (almost) denuded of people. Very disorienting if you've been to London (or any major city, really). I got this via William Gibson's blog and I'll let him describe it in his inimitable way: "Christmas, particularly in the early morning, has always seemed so much more liminal to me than New Year's eve. Spectral, deeply in-between [...] something about the way in which traffic, pedestrian and vehicular, controls one's depth of field, fragmenting and animating the experience."

Holmes' and Watson's World

digaman — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:01:27 -0800

One minute and four seconds in London, 1904. Birkbeck College professor Ian Christie rediscovered this footage in an archive in Canberra, shot for a travelogue by film pioneer Charles Urban.

Photographs at the very beginning of London's Swinging 60's

nickyskye — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:29:00 -0800

Forty years ago, Swinging London was yet to swing. Everything was in black and white and, in class-bound Britain, fashion photographers were trades-men – polite, smart, seen but not heard. A new breed of snappers changed all that – Terry O’Neill, Brian Duffy, David Bailey and Terence Donovan. Bailey and Donovan started their careers in the West End studio of the doyen of fashion photographers – John French. Celebrated East London photographers at that time. Terry O’Neill, about. Brian Duffy, a well known photograph of his, David Bowie. Terence Donovan David Bailey. A bit about him and his girlfriend, Jean Shrimpton, a popular model of the day. The Counterfeit Body: Fashion Photography and the Deceptions of Femininity, Sexuality, Authenticity and Self in the 1950s, 60s and 70s The Age of Sex: Bad Boys and the Sexualized Body in 1960s Fashion Photography John French at the Victoria & Albert Museum

“I went into teaching full of belief and idealism... After five years I realised that there was no place for idealism in teaching"

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:11:40 -0800

George Plemper's extensive photographic record of south London working-class life from the 70s and early 80s, in particular children at Riverside school Thamesmead, was left hidden away in carrier bags for three decades. Now he's put it on Flicker

photographs of wildlife

Flashman — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:48:59 -0800

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Hawkes' Eye View

dersins — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:20:24 -0800

Some pretty cool aerial photos of London at night from photographer Jason Hawkes.

Planed by Gilbert & George

jack_mo — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:15:20 -0800

Planed - a new work by Gilbert & George, available for download until 11:35pm on the 10th of May.

Faces in the crowd

essexjan — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:11:18 -0800

A Thousand Faces Photographer Hal Satterthwaite photographed a thousand people in Walthamstow, which is in north-east London. It's a multi-racial, multi-cultural area, and the photographs reflect this beautifully. Related article from The Times.

I had intended to link to various pictures, but for me the delight was finding the faces I liked best by browsing the site. I even found a friend in there.

Inner City Youth, London

tpl1212 — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:24:34 -0800

Inner City Youth, London "In 2002, Simon Wheatley began photographing London's publich housing developments...and was able to obtain a level of intimacy with his subjects that provides a true picture of the daunting project of growing up in the intimate confines of drug use, societal neglect, and poverty." This (Flash-based) narrated slideshow features Wheatley's work, and is a look at the culture...and also the music (grime) "as an artistic response to the place and circumstance, an expression of the violence, bleakness, and neglect..." (via Future Feeder)

New Year's Eve Around the World

Ljubljana — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 14:41:33 -0800

New Year's Eve From Around the World. Beautiful 360^o panoramas from the first few minutes of 2006 in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Minneapolis, Ljubljana and elsewhere. [Note: Some of the panoramas also have sound]

The Way We See It

chill — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:34:12 -0800

The Way We See It is a fairly new photo site where each week a group of photographers visit and capture a different part of London in their own style, with frequently impressive results. (via)

Pinhole photographs of London and New York

carter — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 08:23:19 -0800

Pinhole photographs of London and New York "I am walking London Underground's Circle Line. On the tube it ordinarily it takes a little over an hour. I'll be doing it on foot, taking slow pinhole photographs, between two stations at a time." Plenty of other stuff on the site too.

Photographs of London Underground Stations

carter — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:18:25 -0800

Photographs of London Underground Stations Taken on black and white film, then coloured in photoshop. A nice example.

On living in an old country

verstegan — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 04:13:41 -0800

Derelict London. A gently melancholy collection of photographs of abandoned shops, hospitals, housing estates, public lavatories, and much more. See also Britannia Moribundia, on the national obsession with dinginess and decay. This is where England most truly excels: in all the characterful shabbiness of its drizzled parks, soiled launderettes, frayed tailors, abject chemists .. and cowed solitary cafes.

Colour number 10 is brilliant

Orange Goblin — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:24:24 -0800

Photos by Matt Stuart - the weird and wonderful around London.