Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> > wrote: > >> On Wednesday I visited a new landscape photographic gallery in Brighton, >> and whilst there took this image overlooking the beach: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gwpics/_2AE3267.jpg.html < >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gwpics/_2AE3267.jpg.html> >> So reminiscent of John Hinde's Butlins adverts and postcards. Yours Gerry, albeit being in BW, show the same soul, that of the everlasting Britain of the 60s :-) http://we-english.co.uk/blog/2009/08/19/butlins-reborn-and-the-john-hinde-postcards/ " The postcards were brought together in a wonderful book edited by Martin Parr and published by Chris Boot. Our True Intent is all for Your Delight was published in 2005. ?Long viewed only as a master of kitsch Hinde is now recognised, albeit posthumously, as a peerless social documentarian. Dazzling in their their colour intensity and strange clarity?. Visionary, Wonderful.? Sean O?Hagan, The Observer, London ?Extraordinary?the combination of aesthetics and promotion produced something that bypasses documentary and approaches an arresting British surrealism.? David Jays, Financial Times " Congrats and thanks for bringing up sweet memories of Clacton-on-Sea. Well, that was long before UKIP ?. Amities Philippe