Visual Culture
A selection of superb ‘Modern’ shop fronts and interiors, from MAGASINS, Editions d’Arts Charles Moreau, Paris, c 1933.
Visual Culture Slides
In the early days of the Amber Collective, members took on paid work for colleges and broadcasters, and generated businesses, sharing the income amongst the group to allow them take their artistic practice forward. In 1972 Amber launched the Lambton Visual Aids slide library, producing sets of transparencies for Higher Education.
This imagery, created to illustrate potential lectures on a host of subjects, included copies of historical works and original slides alongside new images which included projects on: urban architecture, fairground arts, Blackpool Illuminations, shop fronts and other topics.
In addition to the images from the the Amber Film & Photography Collective, other photographers were commissioned to develop sets of slides in international topics under Lambton Visual Aids.
Visual Culture
A selection of shop designs, featuring typography, window displays, advertisements etc. Taken in Northern towns, 1972-74, some since demolished.
Visual Culture
A selection of illustrations featuring the best examples of the art of window display from INTERNATIONAL WINDOW DISPLAY, Cassell & Co, 1951. 24 b/w slides.
Visual Culture
A selection of cartoons and illustrations from perhaps the most famous of all satirical magazines. These taken from KRIEGSNUMMERN DES SIMPLICISSIMUS (the War years edition), Aug 1914 – March 1915 (the magazine’s first year of publication). 24 colour slides
Visual Culture
A selection of architectural studies of small-town buildings (c late C19th – early C20th) photographed in America in 1972. Locations include Beverley (West Virginia), Cripple Creek (Colorado), Annapolis (Maryland), Valdosta (Georgia) and others.
Visual Culture
A selection of bold and unusual illustrations from GAMMON AND SPINACH, Blackie & Sons, circa 1920.
Visual Culture
A selection of street murals photographed in Peterborough, Manchester and the North East of England.
Visual Culture
A mundane and anonymous downtown suburb of San Francisco has been brilliantly converted into a panorama of striking street murals, reflecting Latin American nostalgia for homeland whilst asserting new found lifestyles, e.g. the cult of the motor car. Photographed in 1979.
Visual Culture
Photographs of working class terraced housing in Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne, c 1980.
Visual Culture
A selection of illustrations from ‘THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE PARK: A Series of Designs, comprising Plans, Elevations, Perspective Views & Details, for Buildings required by the various Dependents and Purposes of an Estate, and usually embraced within the Park’, Banks, Edinburgh, 1890. Featuring many aspects of the rapidly disappearing large country estate – lodges, cottages, gamekeeper’s house, head gardener’s house, etc.