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The Bench, No31
This is number thirty-one in a series of 33 photos taken from a flat balcony in London overlooking a bench and taken over a period of about a year. Best to click on ‘The Bench’ link and view them all in a sequence.
Brentor church, Church of St Michael of the rock.
Robert Gifford – Lord of Lamerton and Whitchurch built the church between 1155 and 1162. It is on Dartmoor in Devonshire, UK a little north of Tavistock.
Sheep’s Tor
Mademoiselle Coco, to give her full name, is only six months old but to prove she is a real dog and not a ‘handbag’ dog she had to climb Sheep’s tor on Dartmoor. Here she is about halfway up the 1200 foot tor. Not a nice day but we made it to the top. I was more puffed out than she was.
Who are you looking at?
On Dartmoor near Mortonhampstead.
Robert Frank
Robert Frank, Swiss photographer and naturalised American. Born in 1924. Most famous for his 1955 photo essay ‘The Americans’.
His his fresh and skeptical outsider’s view of American society was funded by a Guggenheim memorial foundation grant . He took 28,000 photographs over 9 months of his trans American trip of which he used 83 in the final book. The forward was written by beat writer Jack Kerouac who made a similar journey as recounted in ‘On the road’. The photos are harsh and technically poor, and I guess were not well received in America because they showed a society that many in America would not like to admit existed.
However, one of his photos I like was part of a series taken in London in 1952, and here it is.
Over there, No8
A short series showing the people on the other side of a pedestrian road crossing.
The Bench, no30
This is number thirty in a series of 33 photos taken from a flat balcony in London overlooking a bench and taken over a period of about a year. Best to click on ‘The Bench’ link and view them all in a sequence.
The Bench, no29
This is number twenty-nine in a series of 33 photos taken from a flat balcony in London overlooking a bench and taken over a period of about a year. Best to click on ‘The Bench’ link and view them all in a sequence.
The road from Dartmoor prison
I would like to have titled this ’The road to Dartmoor prison” but unfortunately I was looking the other way. Dartmoor prison, a couple of miles behind me, in Princetown, Devon was built between 1806 and 1809 to house prisoners taken during the Napoleonic war, then in the war of 1812 between the Unites States and Britain. American prisoners of war were also kept there.From the spring of 1813 until March 1815 about 6500 American sailors were imprisoned at Dartmoor.
While the British were in charge, the prisoners created their own governance and culture. They had courts which meted out punishments, there was an in-prison market, a theater and a gambling room. Many of the prisoners were black Americans.
Behind the prison is a fine memorial to 271 American prisoners who died while in prison.
The Bench, no28
This is number twenty-eight in a series of 33 photos taken from a flat balcony in London overlooking a bench and taken over a period of about a year. Best to click on ‘The Bench’ link and view them all in a sequence.
Over there, no7
A short series of photos of people on the other side of pedestrian road crossings.
The Bench, no27
This is number twenty-seven in a series of 33 photos taken from a flat balcony in London overlooking a bench and taken over a period of about a year. Best to click on ‘The Bench’ link and view them all in a sequence.
The Bench, No26
This is number twenty-six in a series of 33 photos taken from a flat balcony in London overlooking a bench and taken over a period of about a year. Best to click on ‘The Bench’ link and view them all in a sequence.
The Bench, No25
This is number twenty-five in a series of 33 photos taken from a flat balcony in London overlooking a bench and taken over a period of about a year. Best to click on ‘The Bench’ link and view them all in a sequence.
