Comments on: Dragan Novaković’s Brick Lane https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/15/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 21 Nov 2020 04:20:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Roy fitch https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/15/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane/#comment-1358233 Sat, 21 Nov 2020 04:20:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163962#comment-1358233 This is my brick lane, my father used to bring me here in the 70’s, the squeezing through the thousands of people, people selling junk on old sheets, in bacon Street blokes selling “tom”.apple fritters and sarsparella, the derelict shops with one room being used, the last of the Teddy boys hanging around, the national front selling papers on the the corner of brick Lane and Bethnal Green Road.
The small man standing on a stool bending glasses over a naked flame.my late father slept on floors and snooker tables when he was homeless at a very young age in brick Lane, he lived in the nile when back on his feet.
Now filled with champagne socialists who have killed the area thinking they enhance it with artesian bread, oil and vinegar dip, unfortunately they have killed it instead. Now only the homeless or rich snowflakes can live there.

]]> By: Val Mutch https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/15/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane/#comment-1348187 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 08:59:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163962#comment-1348187 Wonderful pictures. Very evocative of my youth and going ‘down the lane’ on a Sunday morning.
Fascinating. Thank you.

]]> By: Sally K https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/15/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane/#comment-1196620 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:51:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163962#comment-1196620 Wonderful work. Thank you Dragan and GA

]]> By: Jonathan Reynolds https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/15/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane/#comment-1196606 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:38:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163962#comment-1196606 Wonderful! Please publish a book.

]]> By: Catherine Ames https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/15/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane/#comment-1196597 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 08:05:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163962#comment-1196597 Beautiful evocative work, faces that go right to the heart of of place that has changed so much.
So glad they have been brought out from the contact sheets. This is very powerful work. Thank you Dragan.

]]> By: Pritam Singh https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/15/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane/#comment-1196493 Sat, 17 Feb 2018 07:55:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163962#comment-1196493 These photographs have a timeless quality and beg to be absorbed slowly and deliberately, morsel by morsel. What a feast!
Thank you for sharing and hats off to Mr. Dragan Novakovic.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/15/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane/#comment-1196448 Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:09:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163962#comment-1196448 Drawn from live …!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Dragan Novakovic https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/15/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane/#comment-1196438 Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:15:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163962#comment-1196438 Thank you all for your kind comments. I am deeply touched and very happy that my photographs mean something to you. My best wishes to all of you. Dragan

]]> By: Anita Patel https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/15/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane/#comment-1196408 Fri, 16 Feb 2018 06:33:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163962#comment-1196408 These photos are so iconic that in frame after frame I felt like I recognized the people. They provided a wonderful review of the people in the streets, on buses and trains that I saw growing up as a child after the war. Amazing that the pictures were take in the 70s.
Thank you Dragan for transporting me totally.

]]> By: Catherine https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/15/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane/#comment-1196405 Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:30:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163962#comment-1196405 These remind me of the wonderful photos by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in “London Street Markets,” a book published in the 1930s (unfortunately now pretty much impossible to find) .

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