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.
