Comments on: In A Dinghy With John Claridge

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 22:21:27 +0000

Poetry.
He’s a great photographer and nice geezer, even though he wouldn’t tell me how he printed his photographs!

By: kristine dillon

kristine dillon — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 00:52:27 +0000

What beautiful atmospheric photos. Between seeing these images and reading the Gentle Author’s post, I feel as if I have been transported back in time and am traveling down the Thames in the early 1960s. Now if only I could do that!

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 21:07:18 +0000

After the rain has the composition of an East End Group painting. The Steps is my favourite. Just looking at it, sets off a skiffle group singing ‘Down by the Riverside’ in my head.

These are very atmospheric photographs with real aesthetic and historical value.

By: pauline taylor

pauline taylor — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 18:01:09 +0000

If we needed proof of just how good John’s photographs are these are that proof, but I don’t need any proof, John is just the best in my book. He has an artist’s eye as I think I might have said before, and the feeling of atmosphere and of being there is quite remarkable. Thank you GA and John for helping me to understand the magic of the river

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:52:55 +0000

This is as good a time as any to say how much I have loved “East End” by John Claridge. I had very high expectations, and the book exceeded ALL of them. I’ve recommended it to artist friends here in the US and they all have the same excited reaction: “Wow!”. The book is one of my favorite volumes to keep within arm’s reach on the coffee table — ready at a moment’s notice any time I want another blast of Claridge inspiration and “grit”. For those of us who love having a real
BOOK to have and hold — this is one of my all time favorites.

By: Shawdian

Shawdian — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:47:19 +0000

Very nice set of photos of the Thames as it was when it was ‘alive’. The Thames is like everything else about London now, bland or dead, turning into nothing more than a tourist
site and not for actual day to day living. These pictures show how raw life on the water was cold and hard like a lot of old London Life. But at least it was real.

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:07:14 +0000

Greetings from Boston,

GA, very evocative. Love the “Steps 1967” and “After the Rain 1961.”

On my recent trip to London, I visited the Docklands Museum which preserves so much of that period, albeit surrounded now by a gentrified neighborhood.

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 10:48:45 +0000

Very fascinating photos, and just as I remember it from childhood times. Valerie

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 08:16:11 +0000

I really enjoyed these, especially After the Rain.

By: John Barrett

John Barrett — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 06:42:15 +0000

A good set of pics by John C keep them all safe they will be priceless in say 100 years time. Researchers will need all the historical docs and pics they can get then. ? not sure which digital formats will be survive by then if any ie future-proof. I liked the pics showing the Thames at low tide lots of archaeological goodies are buried in the mud and gravely banks also pics show a big empty river ? where is it all gone. My favourite view of the Thames is from behind Kew Palace with a few Kew G trees thrown in, nice go for it. John