Vintage London Underground pictures

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I really enjoyed those! I have something of a fascination with the underground and I really love old photos so that's the perfect eye fodder for me. I really like his new stuff as well, makes me wonder why I don't shoot more when I'm down there.

Thanks for sharing. :)
 
A pleasant 10 minutes spent, thank you

Steve
 
they've put a big smile on my face, many thanks
 
Great shots. As if it were needed, 'tis proof all life is on the tube. Thanks for the links.
 
Very interesting and some funny images :)
 
Really enjoyed looking at those, thanks!

Even though I wasn't around in those days ;)

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I enjoyed those. Its interesting to note that most people are not smiling for the camera. Is it that miserable a place (the tube)?
 
I enjoyed looking at those. Brings back some memories, although I've never lived in London. Smoking was banned a long time ago (Kings Cross fire?) and I laughed at the two women, sitting there quite nonchalantly drinking, with the glasses they obviously forgot to return when they left the pub!
 
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I've just had another browse through these, I think they're some of the most fascinating images I've seen in a long time. So may people, so many individual stories. Who are they? Where are they heading? How's their day been? Someone's left a comment in the first set saying the photos look like memories, what a wonderful way of putting it.

They're also perfect examples of how being technically correct has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with producing interesting and engaging images. :)
 
Yeah. These were taken in the 70s and 80s, so not really all that long ago, but it's still a good 30 - 40 years. Some of these people will have died, but others look quite young. I can't help wondering what they look like now that they're in their 50s, 60s and more. How have their lives changed? What happened to them? Is there a chance that any of them might see this thread and recognise themselves? Long shot, I know, but....................

It's a different feeling from the one I get looking at photographs from the late C19th and early C20th, which I also enjoy, because these are more contemporary for my age group (60) than historical.
 
Send the photos to the papers or post them on Facebook to see if you can find the people in them...... I love the shots!
 
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Send the photos to the papers or post them on Facebook to see if you can find the people in them...... I love the shots!
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As much as Shaun (and everyone else) would love to claim them as his, they're taken by Bob Mazzer :p

Says in the article ;)
 
Certainly interesting and somewhat nostalgic but certainly not worthy of the adjective "Amazing".

Most of them are technically pretty poor.
 
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Most of them are technically pretty poor.
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I don't think most of these would have worked anywhere near as well had they been technically perfect, I doubt they'd have had a fraction of the mood they have f they'd have been perfectly sharp, perfectly exposed, etc. Sometimes being technically correct serves no purpose other than to get in the way.
 
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I don't think most of these would have worked anywhere near as well had they been technically perfect, I doubt they'd have had a fraction of the mood they have f they'd have been perfectly sharp, perfectly exposed, etc. Sometimes being technically correct serves no purpose other than to get in the way.
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Agreed. Sometimes, I think we can become so obsessed with the technical that the whole purpose of the photograph gets forgotten.
 
Superb, cheers for the link, well up my street that, cracking set of images from a forgotten era
 
I've seen a number of these elsewhere and I love them.

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Most of them are technically pretty poor.
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Having a quick search around the web, it seems he preferred to shoot on Kodachrome, starting out with Kodachrome 25 in the 60s. Kodachrome 200 wasn't available till 1986, so that means most of the colour shots were probably done with Kodachrome 64. In the lighting available on the Underground, especially on moving trains, frankly it's amazing he got anything usable at all.

FWIW Fuji were the first to introduce an ISO 400 colour negative film [Fujicolor FII400] in 1976.
 
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I think London Underground photos are amazing, I've never come across vintage ones before, however that was a very interesting and great insight for me
 
They're awesome... seen some of these before, but there's stuff in there that's new to me. THAT'S street photography (well... under street in this case :))
 
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