peterm1
Veteran
Gorgeous images;
https://klyker.com/ordinary-chinese-people-in-1970s-45-photos/
Especially this one.
https://klyker.com/ordinary-chinese-people-in-1970s-45-photos/
Especially this one.
raid
Dad Photographer
Thank you for the link, Peter. Very interesting.
Freakscene
Obscure member
I wish I could buy colour film with a colour palette and contrast response like that.
Beautiful, they are really well composed too.
Marty
Beautiful, they are really well composed too.
Marty
CharlesDAMorgan
Veteran
Fabulous!
My great grandfather served in the Royal Navy's China Fleet based in Shanghai in the first decade of the 20th century and as children we played with the postcards from there with scenes from Chinese life he sent back to our great grandmother. With some small details changed there is a recognisable link and aesthetic with the above link. Sadly they were thrown away as we'd scribbled all over them, and I suspect the images of the 70s are as alien to contemporary China as our postcards would be today.
My great grandfather served in the Royal Navy's China Fleet based in Shanghai in the first decade of the 20th century and as children we played with the postcards from there with scenes from Chinese life he sent back to our great grandmother. With some small details changed there is a recognisable link and aesthetic with the above link. Sadly they were thrown away as we'd scribbled all over them, and I suspect the images of the 70s are as alien to contemporary China as our postcards would be today.
tbhv55
Well-known
I suspect that you meant "20th century", Charles.
Or perhaps you're MUCH younger than we thought?! nickthetasmaniac
Veteran
Thanks for sharing, really beautiful documentary photography.
I think these would have been taken not long after my Wife’s family left the south of China.
I think these would have been taken not long after my Wife’s family left the south of China.
CharlesDAMorgan
Veteran
I suspect that you meant "20th century", Charles.
I'm certainly much younger than I currently feel, senior moments aplenty!
tbhv55
Well-known
raid
Dad Photographer
Outdated film may give you interesting looking colors.
peterm1
Veteran
Until recently I always felt as if I were 15 years younger than my chronological age - fit still played sport, walked, ran, sailed. Then I had a bout of spinal stenosis which has affected my spinal nerves. Although I had surgery it left me with residual problems in my extremities which may or may not go away. Which means that suddenly almost over night I feel 15 years older than my chronological age. I suddenly know all about that kind of senior moment...and the other kind (now where did I put my damn glasses?) At least there is still photography - though even there it has some effect. I no longer feel inclined to lug a heavy DSLR and lenses about so much as I once did.
CharlesDAMorgan
Veteran
My sympathies Peter. I'm fortunate not to have anything of such effect, but I did something to my back the other day and just as I'm packing to move, plus a lack of sleep caused by the back pain and today I just feel bloody old. It will pass.
In fact, I may just have a malt whisky before it gets packed away.
In fact, I may just have a malt whisky before it gets packed away.
peterm1
Veteran
Thanks Charles - have that scotch!
Now for something different. More Kodachrome photos. This time of Vancouver in the 1950s and 1960s, taken by Fred Herzog. I have seen these images before and posted some of them here already on other threads but not all people would have seen his Kodachrome images.
https://flashbak.com/shoppers-voyeurs-and-loiterers-vancouver-street-life-in-color-1953-1969-382923/
Two Examples
Freakscene
Obscure member
I’m looking for consistent but muted. Outdated film is too unpredictable in its response.
Marty