Fun and interesting; thanks for posting. I remember watching the cheese rolling race on the news not so long ago, slow news day in Canada I guess ;-)
On 6/25/08, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Connoisseurs of the island race that lives off the coast of Europe may > find this gallery of pictures by Homer Sykes interesting and > enjoyable: > > http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/vexhibit/_PHOTOGRAPHER_Homer__Sykes_0 > 1/5/0/0/ > > These are from one of the seminal books of modern British photography, > Once A Year. Like Tony Ray-Jones before him, Sykes was inspired by the > collection of photographs of English life in the 19th century that was > put together by Sir Benjamin Stone, and he went out to photograph the > same customs in a modern style. > > Around the same time other British photographers such as Ian Berry, > Don McCullin and David Hurn were also taking a look at the way people > lived here. Up-and-coming photographers such as Martin Parr were > making names for themselves working in the same tradition, and Parr > has famously built on and extended this work, and it is also continued > by the likes of Mark Power (see his book The Shipping Forecast for > examples). > > Tony Ray-Jones: > http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10307850 > > Bob > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
