Comments on: Tony Hall, Photographer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/14/tony-hall-photographer-o/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:41:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Christine Dalton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/14/tony-hall-photographer-o/#comment-1479188 Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:41:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192799#comment-1479188 Such superb photos and every photo tells a story! I especially love the baby in wool, this doesn’t happen nowadays ?

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/14/tony-hall-photographer-o/#comment-1476867 Mon, 15 Aug 2022 07:47:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192799#comment-1476867 Wonderful, wonderful images, and every one a winner. Thank you so much for sharing. I had to smile at the working conditions under which Libby worked. Bet it was one of those old ‘sit up and beg’ typewriters that I started my own working life using. Mine thankfully on a desk, especially as I’m short and would have had a job to reach the top of the filing cabinet haha!

]]> By: Bernie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/14/tony-hall-photographer-o/#comment-1476793 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 21:03:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192799#comment-1476793 No road-paint? I was wrong! There is some in one frame, the one with Mathias timber supply, evidently a more important (4-lane) traffic artery, probably Hackney or Kingsland Road at a guess. But true of the back streets, and a sign of the age of these images.

]]> By: Bernie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/14/tony-hall-photographer-o/#comment-1476748 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 15:06:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192799#comment-1476748 I notice the complete absence of road-paint. No lane dividers, no parking bays. No nothing!

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/14/tony-hall-photographer-o/#comment-1476740 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 13:04:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192799#comment-1476740 Aren’t we fortunate today? I so enjoyed this archive of photos. Clearly, this gent had The Eye.
His gift for capturing a moment, a frame, an expression, a bit of signage, a scattering of book pages,
and a parade of engaging characters……..quite remarkable.

The two ladies in the doorway? — with their flowered aprons, house slippers, and sweet smiles —— Now that’s one for the ages.

I got caught up in each photo, spinning narratives.
Thank you, GA and the Hall family.

]]> By: Philip Marriage https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/14/tony-hall-photographer-o/#comment-1476735 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 11:39:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192799#comment-1476735 These are so good – a photographer with the eye of an artist.

]]> By: Stephanie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/14/tony-hall-photographer-o/#comment-1476727 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 10:19:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192799#comment-1476727 I would like to contact Libby Hall
Is it possible to get her email address

]]> By: Milo https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/14/tony-hall-photographer-o/#comment-1476726 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 10:12:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192799#comment-1476726 Wonderful sharp photos. You can taste the air.

]]> By: Chris Moxey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/14/tony-hall-photographer-o/#comment-1476725 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 09:59:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192799#comment-1476725 The man with woman an child in the 6th photo below the text looks like someone famous, perhaps a writer? Someone one occasionally sees photos of as a younger man. Perhaps it will come back to me later!

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/14/tony-hall-photographer-o/#comment-1476724 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 09:58:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192799#comment-1476724 Really good pictures.
Love the one of the 2 men drowsily kipping on the bench in the warm sunshine. I wonder, had they left the library or the pub? I don’t think they are too bothered about going home to “her indoors” in their condition.
Lots of working class wonders in these marvellous portraits.

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