I could just not resist this is a super set of photos posted on Face Book by Angel Archer on the Old Pics of Brum page.
The narrative is refreshing and perfectly reflects the curse of the rose-tinted spectacles of a golden age that never was. Living and working in conditions like this was not a lifestyle choice or were they happy times for the adults. This was the exploitative poverty that working people endured, while doing so much, while others enjoyed an abundance doing very little.
Angel Archer says:
Some more of Bob Moore's photos of Brum's inner city
from the mid '60s to the mid '70s.
Many of the houses, shops & indeed streets
in these pictures have long vanished into history
or been transformed, hopefully for the better.
I say for the better
because the curse of nostalgia
is it tends to shade memory in a rosy glow;
colouring over the harsher truth that
for many of these people
this era was a long grind of
real hardship & abject poverty.
However,
Bob Moore didn't choose to document
his home town as some abstract academic
exercise, casting a remote, cold eye on the poor.
He took photographs of the people
for the people; to give them a document
of their lives when theirs were lives
they felt were ignored, marginilized
or forgotten.
To notice them.
The narrative is refreshing and perfectly reflects the curse of the rose-tinted spectacles of a golden age that never was. Living and working in conditions like this was not a lifestyle choice or were they happy times for the adults. This was the exploitative poverty that working people endured, while doing so much, while others enjoyed an abundance doing very little.
Angel Archer says:
Some more of Bob Moore's photos of Brum's inner city
from the mid '60s to the mid '70s.
Many of the houses, shops & indeed streets
in these pictures have long vanished into history
or been transformed, hopefully for the better.
I say for the better
because the curse of nostalgia
is it tends to shade memory in a rosy glow;
colouring over the harsher truth that
for many of these people
this era was a long grind of
real hardship & abject poverty.
However,
Bob Moore didn't choose to document
his home town as some abstract academic
exercise, casting a remote, cold eye on the poor.
He took photographs of the people
for the people; to give them a document
of their lives when theirs were lives
they felt were ignored, marginilized
or forgotten.
To notice them.
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