Comments on: Just Another Day With John Claridge https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/19/just-another-day-with-john-claridge-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 24 Sep 2020 02:27:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: William Cahill https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/19/just-another-day-with-john-claridge-x/#comment-1353380 Thu, 24 Sep 2020 02:27:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183345#comment-1353380 Dear Gentle Author,

Are you aware of a book called “A London Childhood” by a man called John Holloway? With an introduction by C.P. Snow? A moving book.

It was published in the U.S. by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1968; I have no information as to the U.K. publisher.

I think Professor Holloway’s book could very well have been illustrated by Mr. Claridge’s photographs!

]]> By: Ronald Harnack https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/19/just-another-day-with-john-claridge-x/#comment-1353123 Sun, 20 Sep 2020 19:41:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183345#comment-1353123 Beautiful photos of the familiar quiet of everyday life.

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/19/just-another-day-with-john-claridge-x/#comment-1353066 Sat, 19 Sep 2020 20:41:42 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183345#comment-1353066 Thank You for these Great Pictures and Stories. I have Enjoyed them Very Much.????????

]]> By: Pete Anderson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/19/just-another-day-with-john-claridge-x/#comment-1353055 Sat, 19 Sep 2020 14:15:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183345#comment-1353055 The Rinkoff’s baker looks like Jamie Vardy thirty years from now!

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/19/just-another-day-with-john-claridge-x/#comment-1353054 Sat, 19 Sep 2020 14:04:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183345#comment-1353054 Comparable to Bill Brandt.
Empathy for the baker as I myself was one for 3 years in the 80’s.
Looks to me like he has come out for fresh air (& a fag to go with his cuppa, in obligatory filthy mug) after 4 solid hours slaving away and it’s still only 7.30 in the morning
Hope someone is keeping an eye on the oven!
John Claridge, greatly missed.

]]> By: Esther Wilkinson Rank https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/19/just-another-day-with-john-claridge-x/#comment-1353052 Sat, 19 Sep 2020 13:21:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183345#comment-1353052 Great photos and text — so evocative of the time and place. Important to remember and savour these settled routines during these unsettled times.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/19/just-another-day-with-john-claridge-x/#comment-1353048 Sat, 19 Sep 2020 12:28:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183345#comment-1353048 With respectful deference to the historians……..I say: Let’s give thanks to the photographers.
They not only chronicle our surroundings, but they allow US to be part of the process. We, the viewers, are allowed to “notice” the chosen bits of every image — and there are no wrong
answers. Notice the young woman, asleep on the subway — her face like an altar painting.
And the accumulation of goods outside “The Shed” — I felt like I was the woman in the shot, watching and waiting to pounce on some choice bit of merchandise. (but also notice the excessive froth of draperies inside the window above it all……..) John Claridge’s photos are a banquet; served up with a distinctive “grit” that is unmistakably his.
“East End by John Claridge” is one of my all-time favorite photography books.

]]> By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/19/just-another-day-with-john-claridge-x/#comment-1353041 Sat, 19 Sep 2020 09:08:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183345#comment-1353041 Another great collection from another age. Thanks.

]]> By: Di Corry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/19/just-another-day-with-john-claridge-x/#comment-1353034 Sat, 19 Sep 2020 06:20:17 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183345#comment-1353034 As always, wonderful photographs taken by John.
Yes, many of those images tell a story ….. as that great photographer Diane Arbus said “A photograph is like a secret, the more you see the less you know”.
Thank you for sharing these.

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