Thursday, October 30, 2014

1930s British portraiture by renown photographer Edwin Smith

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Hailed by poet Sir John Betjeman as a "genius at photography" and by photographer Cecil Beaton as "an understanding and loving connoisseur of his subject," Edwin Smith (1912–1971) captured the essence of the places, landscapes and buildings he photographed.


But some of Smith's finest work is portraiture


For a short period he worked as a Vogue fashion photographer, but went later focused his lens on British communities comprised of miners, dockers and circuses.


Smith was sought after by publishers. In the 1950s he was commissioned by Thames & Hudson for a series of books, among them English Parish Churches (1952), English Cottages & Farmhouses (1954), Scotland (1955), England (1957) and The Living City: A New View of the City of London (1957) Read more...


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