Street photographer Robert Blomfield's gorgeous photos of everyday life in Edinburgh were hidden away in shoeboxes for decades.
practiced street photography all over the UK from the late 1950s in Edinburgh, where he was a medical student at age 18, to the early 1970s., Nikon’s first SLR camera, often with black tape on the Nikon name to make himself less obtrusive. Maybe he learned it from Cartier-Bresson, who covered his chrome Leica camera with black tape to make it less conspicuous.as he quietly observed anything interesting or amusing that might present itself in a post-war city in transition.
“Even when he passed away, he still had his cameras with him,” says Will Blomfield, Robert’s eldest son, in the Stuart Edwards film“I used to remember when we were going over to Sheffield [in England] to visit my gran[father], and we would be driving across the countryside, and suddenly he would pull the car over… and out would come the camera. Everyone would groan,’ here we go again,’ and he’d be snapping away at a tree or something.
His interest was in people and getting to know them as a doctor or a photographer. He also got close to his subjects with the result that his images show a kind of intimacy even though he had only met many of his subjects on the street for the first time.“I think it’s a form of love,” Blomfield once remarked. “You should love the picture. I love the photographs. I love the people.”“He understood that the work was good,” says George Blomfield, the middle of the late photographer’s three sons.
“The fact that Robert’s work remained relatively unknown for almost 60 years is astounding to me. In his work, we sense echoes of earlier street photographers like Eugène Atget and
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