Comments on: A Few Pints With John Claridge

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 14:51:11 +0000

Great pictures by John, the grit and grain of the 35mm film is fantastic.
The pub in “The Meeting, E14” is the Waterman’s Arms on the corner of Glenaffric Avenue and Saunders Ness Road on the Isle of Dogs. I know this because I lived at the bottom of Glenaffric Avenue (it was called Glengarnock Avenue in those days) in the fish and chip shop. The door to the left of the big black Rover leads to the publican’s accommodation and it’s still there. The pub is called the Great Eastern now.

By: paula claridge

paula claridge — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:02:33 +0000

“in the bar E 14 is my granmother, john and i am still waiting for the ring.

By: graham cornthwaite

graham cornthwaite — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:23:59 +0000

To John Claridge I raise my John Courage. Happy days. God bless you x x

By: George Lloyd

George Lloyd — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:06:40 +0000

Love these “Black & white”shots.Makes me want to get my photography “stuff”up and running again,but wonder if the images that B&W is made for are still out there?.

By: William Goldman

William Goldman — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:20:44 +0000

In the Conversation: He seems to have two horns coming out of his head! But they are kind of translucent or semi-translucent. Extraordinary

By: Jan Davis

Jan Davis — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:35:49 +0000

As usual everyone else has said all that there is to say – they are wonderful John and it only leaves me to say when are you coming back to enjoy a drink at “The French” so we can celebrate this extroadinary collection of your images with you!!

By: David Drakes

David Drakes — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:24:48 +0000

Ah, the traditional British pub . . . cigarette smoke, dogs, brown windsor soup wallpaper, warts and all . . . now all but swallowed up by national chains and gastros . . . but brought back vibrantly to life by JC’s nostalgic East End images . . . I think, however, from my many years’ acquaintanship of JC, that we can attribute his many years’acute observation of the pub scene in both the East End in his early years and latterly in the West End, to his genius with the lens rather than his sobriety!

By: Cindy S.

Cindy S. — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:19:51 +0000

“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

-Now come on boys don’t let me down!
C.

By: john edwards

john edwards — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:58:35 +0000

Oh Yes Johnny, vins sec, we’ve had a few – but then again – we are not in a hurry ……

The use of grain in printing this little concrete & clay essay shows the the joys and sorrows
of drinking distillations of grain and hops in gently firm stark reality. First shot could be, is,
George Orwell, others hit like Degas’ ‘Absinthe Drinkers’ and the brilliant capture of the
belle vivant with wondrous beehive , gull wing eyebrows, and smiling lips brooch, has the force of simplicity you see in Picasso’s Gertie Stein portrait [ only with a generous smile unlike the misery-moo GS.] while the following ‘Smile’ is so akin the aged clown portrait by Picasso.

JC is like a visitor from another planet who merely records the wonder of what he witnesses,
a jerry built health hazard of ‘got the teeth done, now the wiring’s on the fritz’ pebble dash
world of never say die, stagger on. But so subtly, what is not shown but very present.

So, from an acute sight and warmth of mind John pierces his subjects and imbues both humans, buildings and barrels with a force of being beyond photography – something uniquely his own magic
realism. Think we’ll call him John Clarity, cunning little smiling fox armed with a single glass eyed box. Terrific John.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:58:13 +0000

great photos