Photographs that shaped the urban landscape
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Photographs that shaped the urban landscape
https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-66784928
Good picture of Christ's Hospital Band practising in the quad, Horsham, West Sussex. Not quite sure how it shaped the urban landscape
Good picture of Christ's Hospital Band practising in the quad, Horsham, West Sussex. Not quite sure how it shaped the urban landscape
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Re: Photographs that shaped the urban landscape
Agree it’s a nice photo, but why on earth is it included?
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Re: Photographs that shaped the urban landscape
Some of the pics are by Tony Ray-Jones who was contemporary with me in Col B in the 1950s. He went on to be a renowned social documentary photographer and died tragically young.
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Fascinating bit of info. You might imagine then that Old Blue Tony Ray-Jones took the photo of the CH band in the Quad, which might explain its inclusion in the exhibition, but no. The photo is by Tom Smith.
Just a thought, but perhaps the answer is CH's architecture, such as Big School. Valeria Carullo, exhibition lead curator and RIBA photographs curator, says the exhibition is:
"... a timely reminder of the importance of citizens' participation in the decisions that affect their communities and the role architects can play in creating a fairer society."
But to be honest, I'm also completely baffled!
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Re: Photographs that shaped the urban landscape
Perhaps it's to reflect that rural Christ's Hospital Horsham was build to replace the inner city Christ's Hospital Newgate Street? The Horsham site is the is certainly the consequence of a change to the urban landscape.
Just a thought ...
Just a thought ...
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I think this quote from the article might give a clue;Straz wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 9:23 pmJust a thought, but perhaps the answer is CH's architecture, such as Big School. Valeria Carullo, exhibition lead curator and RIBA photographs curator, says the exhibition is:
"... a timely reminder of the importance of citizens' participation in the decisions that affect their communities and the role architects can play in creating a fairer society."
But to be honest, I'm also completely baffled!
Put side by side, the massive difference between the brutalist architecture of old London estates where kids are playing in empty planters (or bins) and the pomp and ceremony of the CH marching band is stark, to say the least."This exhibition, with the raw power of its photographs, brings us back to a time of challenges, disparities, disillusionment, but also a time of questioning, protesting, campaigning - in many ways, much like our here and now,"
ThB 89-91, PeA 93-96