Comments on: John Claridge’s View From A Dinghy

By: David Green

David Green — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:47:45 +0000

Wow. “Gulls, 1961”. Stunning. All are very, very good, but that image is next level.

By: Tim Betteridge

Tim Betteridge — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 20:56:40 +0000

Beautiful pictures. I wish I was there.

By: Jennifer Blain

Jennifer Blain — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:41:21 +0000

And to bring the misty, moody river right up-to-date I heard a talk by Leo Villareal, the light artist working on the Illuminated River project, who told us that he has used the mist-fractured colour pallets of 19th century artists like Turner, Monet, Whistler as inspriation for his lighting programs for each of the Thames bridges.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 13:35:59 +0000

When John Claridge covers a topic, it is a “full-immersion” experience. Even though I am right here ( still in my jammies) in the Hudson River Valley in New York State, I feel like I have just
trudged through the midnight fog, my slicker dripping with frigid rain and my boots caked with mud. Still thinking about what I’ve seen during this night time prowl, I decide……..Do I want a steaming hot cup of coffee, or a tumbler of Scotch? Either way, I toast John Claridge and his remarkable descriptive photos. Each one, an exploration. (“Steps 1967” grabbed me by the lapels, and shoved me right DOWN where I could inspect each weathered surface, the sound of the lapping water in my ears. Just amazing.) Yes, you DO need “East End John Claridge” in your
library.
Stay safe, all.

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 12:38:01 +0000

Thanks for publishing these exquisite photographs by John Claridge. His book is one of those that keeps coming off the shelf.

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 11:26:14 +0000

Greetings from Boston,

GA, great pics of the river.

“In the previous century, Joseph Mallord William Turner and James McNeill Whistler had attempted to evoke the distinctive quality of Thames light upon canvas …”

And let’s not forget the dozens of Thames views by Claude Monet (1840-1926) who fled the Franco-Prussian War in Paris in 1870. He took up residence at the Savoy Hotel which then had balconies on premier rooms so he could paint the river from a variety of angles. He returned thirty years later and continued the task.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 10:27:40 +0000

I love John Claridge’s photography, and have just given myself a visual treat by looking back over G.A’s other blogs of John’s photographs. No other photographer manages to capture the essence of the old East End quite like John in his wonderful, grainy ethereal images.

By: Mathilde Grange

Mathilde Grange — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 10:22:07 +0000

Sad, beautiful, melancholic, full of mystery, but gone forever. Thank you.

By: Pauline Taylor

Pauline Taylor — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 09:13:24 +0000

Superb photos, the mysterious and fascinating River Thames, gateway to the world and the working place of so many of my ancestors. I never tire of seeing photos of it in all its moods, even the smog.

By: Paul Wavell Ridgway

Paul Wavell Ridgway — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 07:29:01 +0000

I wonder if he had read ‘London River’ by H M Tomlinson, first published in 1921, later with illustrations in 1951 by Cassell & Co. Can still be found.
Claridge and Tomlinson would have had much in common, the London River. Liquid History
as the Battersea MP John Elliot Burns called it.