An Inland Voyage - from the Robert Longden Archive

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I agree that it matches OWL's work, especially reminds me of some of the shots
along the Virginia Creeper where he captured the "essence" of the area along
with the trains... hope the exhibit makes it over the "pond".

On August 30, 2010 at 7:23 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:



> I'm not sure if I've commended this exhbition - of life on the Oxford and

> Coventry Canals, before. It is a tad off-topic, but these photographs of the

> 1940s and 1950s, of a way of live already in decline, and soon to end, and the

> picturing of people and the way of life echoes, to me at least, Winston Link's

> own philosophy.

> 

> I only managed to get to see this exhibition, in Coventry's Herbert Art

> Gallery and Museum, yesterday, and it closes today.  I hope that there's a

> chance that it will tour - perhaps even to the United States (it would seem to

> be a great match for the OWL Museum in Roanoke).

> 

> http://www.theherbert.org/index.php/home/whats-on/an-inland-voyage

> http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jun/22/canal-lives-photographs-1940s-longden

> 

> Showing during the exhibition was this video - though it doesn't seem to be

> available commercially - which is wonderfully evocative of the era.

> 

> http://www.theiac.org.uk/film-making2/splendid-people.html

> 

> Dominic

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