Comments on: Burdekin’s London Nights

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 19:47:46 +0000

Amazing images

By: Ann V

Ann V — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 19:02:50 +0000

Gorgeous!

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:09:29 +0000

In the eyes of THIS beholder, at least, the top photo and the concluding photo both look like amazing stage settings. I’m sitting in the audience, as the blue velvet curtain comes up, and the orchestra begins a skittering ominous undertone. Then, a series of footsteps. A tall figure wrapped in a flowing cape steps into one of those blazing shafts of cobalt light, and the drama begins.

Thank you for these nocturnal images, on this crisp sunny morning in the Hudson River Valley!

By: Marie Nicholson

Marie Nicholson — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:51:37 +0000

What a wonderful blue nightscape of London you have given us, atmospheric and quite gorgeous.
Like you, I am a night bird, coming alive after dark and hiding away from the light in the mornings. I sometimes wonder if there is not some vampire in me!
When I lived in London I used to love visiting Covent Garden at night and around the dock areas. All much safer then. I doubt if I could do that now.

By: Brett Busang

Brett Busang — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 10:38:42 +0000

In my little essay, please substitute “painters” for “painting”. And, if you want to split hairs, a dash should appear after “unjustly perhaps” – unless I mean “perhaps unjustly”.

By: Brett Busang

Brett Busang — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 10:21:43 +0000

Among paintings, Birge Harrison is among a blood-line that includes Charles Hoffbauer, Everett Shinn, and his colleague, John Sloan. None, however, specialized in an after-hours programme. (Their days were much too busy for that). Of them all – perhaps unjustly, John Sloan might prompt a bleary-eyed recognition. (His “Election Night” – a title that is, in part, my own – might, in the absence of electronic media, have achieved iconic status. Yet movies do just as well, with crowd scenes, as Sloan ever did and they have won whatever race in which most of them come out on top). Shin’s influence was, for a time, more penetrating. (His “Eviction” – a title that rings true, but may fall short of the one Shinn (or an editor) gave it – dramatizes a moment readers of the magazine in which it appeared dreaded less than its victims. Yet its casual brutality – which seems a little harsher in a world that is still wide-awake – hits home).

Hoffbauer’s night-scenes are the electrifying moments with which Shinn and Sloan were intimately familiar, and painted as well. Yet Hoffbauer’s are the wide-eyed things these two other men would never produce.

I do ‘em as well. Yet they have not mellowed as these other painters’ have. And I should not live among them.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:58:37 +0000

Always dread return of dark Winter nights, but then find I’m fascinated by the power of light through the darkness. Moonlight nights a bonus of course. Thanks for sharing these stunning and atmospheric views of our historic capital city.

By: Milo

Milo — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:49:33 +0000

Absolutely gorgeous.

By: Mathilde Grange

Mathilde Grange — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:35:10 +0000

Fantastic, splendid, fantasmagorical, so very London as we imagined the city when reading 19th century novels.

By: Paul Loften

Paul Loften — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:13:30 +0000

Haunting and atmospheric photos of the nighttime London of my memories. I had occasion to stop at Micks Cafe in Fleet Street a few times . If you were wondering where the missing night time people were , they probably could be found there .
Thank you GA for your work in brining these photos to us