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Arts > Photo > UK > Robert Bloomfield 1938-2021
March 1966 Blomfield had an intimate connection with the people and places he photographed.
‘I think it’s a form of love,’ he said. ‘You should love the picture. I love the photographs. I love the people’
Hidden in a shoebox: vintage Edinburgh shots that were nearly lost – in pictures Robert Blomfield’s stunning pictures of the Scottish capital were locked away for decades. Now his family want to share his talent with the world G Tue 23 Feb 2021 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/23/
April 1966 His style was influenced by several of photography’s greats. Henri Cartier-Bresson’s pioneering images inspired him to see more and be seen less
Hidden in a shoebox: vintage Edinburgh shots that were nearly lost – in pictures Robert Blomfield’s stunning pictures of the Scottish capital were locked away for decades. Now his family want to share his talent with the world G Tue 23 Feb 2021 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/23/
India Place, Stockbridge, 1965
Many dilapidated Victorian buildings were in the process of being demolished under the postwar slum-clearance scheme. Blomfield was drawn to these crumbling streets
Hidden in a shoebox: vintage Edinburgh shots that were nearly lost – in pictures Robert Blomfield’s stunning pictures of the Scottish capital were locked away for decades. Now his family want to share his talent with the world G Tue 23 Feb 2021 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/23/
Robert Bloomfield UK > Scotland
Robert Blomfield, (...), was a family doctor who practised in Wrexham then Hebden Bridge.
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Robert started using his father’s Leica and Contax cameras.
He soon mastered them, showing a natural flair for photography, spending many hours coaxing prints from special paper immersed in bowls of chemicals under the filtered light of his father’s makeshift darkroom.
Later, at Repton school in Derbyshire, the headteacher, recognising his talent, gave him free rein;
from then on he was rarely seen without a camera.
He delighted in capturing fleeting moments.
His close observations made between 1957 and 1967, while a medical student and junior doctor in Edinburgh and London, are particularly remarkable.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/22/
Robert Blomfield’s stunning pictures of the Scottish capital were locked away for decades.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/23/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/23/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/22/
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