Robert Blomfield: Edinburgh Street Photography An Unseen Archive Pictured City Art Centre Curator, Maeve Toal, Robert Blomfield, Boy on Cannon, Calton
Robert Blomfield: Edinburgh Street Photography An Unseen Archive Pictured City Art Centre Curator, Maeve Toal, Robert Blomfield, Boy on Cannon, Calton Hill Edinburgh,Black and White Photograph,1964. © the artist 24 November 2018 to 17 March 2019, City Art Centre, Admission Free This winter the City Art Centre showcases an exhibition of vintage street photography by Robert Blomfield, revealing part of a remarkable private archive of his stunning work. Blomfield practised street photography across the UK from the 1950s to the 1970s, beginning in Edinburgh. He moved to the city to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1956, when he was 18 years old. Whilst a student, Blomfield pursued his passion for photography and spent his free time capturing life on the streets. He adopted an unobtrusive fly-on-the-wall approach, seeking interesting or amusing scenes in the rapidly changing post-war period. An engaging manner and healthy disrespect for authority allowed him to get close to a myriad of subjects, taking photographs that are in turn tender, bold and humorous. Blomfield used a pair of Nikon F SLRs to shoot his images, and did his own developing and printing in a makeshift darkroom set up in his student digs. A subsequent medical career meant his vast collection of striking images - which number in the thousands and carry echoes of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Vivian Maier - remained largely hidden, stored away in cardboard boxes. In 1999, a stroke forced him to retire from medicine and put down his camera, and ten years ago, his wife Jane started the huge task of cataloguing and digitising these photographs. After her passing Blomfield’s three sons William, Edward and George, along with his brother Johnny, continued this labour of love. The exhibition Robert Blomfield: Edinburgh Street Photography - An Unseen Archive displays a selection of around 60 black and white works from this remarkable private collection, revealing and documenting the dramatic shifts t
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