Comments on: Bert Hardy, Photographer

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 22:57:54 +0000

Does anyone know name of girl in the 1948 gorbals: girl with baby in blanket, just saw it online a few days ago, had to double takes I look like her.

By: stuart goodman

stuart goodman — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 09:27:10 +0000

thanks for this, it’s very helpful. i have been lucky enough to have inherited a couple of bert’s leitz enlargers via martin from silverprint.

my photos from broadway market, on view at the off broadway bar, were printed on them.

By: Bailey Jones

Bailey Jones — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 22:24:36 +0000

Cracking photos. The iconic Gorbals Boys is such an iconic image now.

Katherine Whitehorn was so photogenic. I am wondering if Hardy took the other photo of her I know of her sitting in her flat in a fifties flaired skirt which was used as a book cover in the 90s.

By: James

James — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 21:34:27 +0000

I was lucky enough to meet Bert Hardy in 1988. He was then kind enough to take pictures of my wife, and our two young children (with his Leica!). He was an excellent raconteur, and a complete charmer with a rascally wit. A really lovely man.

By: Christine Gingerich

Christine Gingerich — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:48:46 +0000

Wonderful photos and life. Amusing that he used his sisters head to balance the original camera

By: stuart goodman

stuart goodman — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:12:01 +0000

wonderful evocative images. many old black and white photos rely on their subject matter for their effect but bert had a genius for getting inside the skin of who he was photographing. I was lucky beyond belief to have been given some of his darkroom gear after grove hardy closed.

By: Achim

Achim — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:59:23 +0000

Great photographs from an ancient period …

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: josephine mcnally

josephine mcnally — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:46:04 +0000

My dad grew up round Cable Street and was from a Catholic family. He told me how they were all scared of the nuns who used to just march into their flat to see their widowed mum! He left school at 14 and eventually became a docker.

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:55:56 +0000

Wonderful photos, he had so much talent for capturing the moment. Good to see Father Joe again, that’s how I remember him! Valerie

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:51:55 +0000

On a chair on her landing, my dear grandmother had a stack of Picture Posts over a foot high, full of amazing things. I would visit her after school every weekday and avidly search through them oblivious to the celebrated nature of the pictures, but merely loving their liveliness. She died, to my great sorrow, when I was 13, and after I had got over the shock I looked for them to ask if I could have them, but my aunt, who prefered some film magazine, had thrown them all out ………. Every time I see a Bert Hardy picture the sense of loss returns to me, together with a wish that those you have loved so much wouldn’t so inconveniently die ………