PASSING TIME: ONLINE EXHIBITION

21 Jun - 1 Aug 2016
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<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Anonymous</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Diver - Eastport, Maine 1920</em></div><div class="medium">Silver Gelatin Print</div><div class="dimensions">8.8 x 6.1 cm</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Anonymous</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Man launching toy plane</em></div><div class="medium">Vintage silver gelatin print</div><div class="dimensions">16.8 x 21.2 cm </div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Anonymous</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Diving</em></div><div class="signed_and_dated">Black Star and other stamp on verso</div><div class="medium">Vintage gelatin silver print </div><div class="dimensions">17.4 x 14.4 cm</div><div class="edition_details">Title in pencil on verso</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Anonymous</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Walter Hunchake</em></div><div class="signed_and_dated">Annotations in pencil on verso</div><div class="medium">Vintage gelatin silver print </div><div class="dimensions">19.3 x 23.7 cm</div><div class="edition_details">Black Star and other stamps on verso</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Serge de Sazo</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Under Water Swimming</em></div><div class="signed_and_dated">Title in pencil on verso</div><div class="medium">Vintage gelatin silver print </div><div class="dimensions">30 x 23.6 cm</div><div class="edition_details">Black Star stamp and Rapho stamp (scrubbed out) on verso</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Stan Healy</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Rodeo</em></div><div class="signed_and_dated">Artists wet stamp with edition on verso</div><div class="medium">20.2 x 25.3 cm</div><div class="dimensions">Silver gelatin print</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Stan Healy</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Young Girl with Painting of Horse</em></div><div class="signed_and_dated">Artists wet stamp with edition on verso</div><div class="medium">Silver gelatin print</div><div class="dimensions">20.2 x 25.3 cm</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Stan Healy</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Road Accident, Missoula</em></div><div class="signed_and_dated">Artists wet stamp with edition on verso</div><div class="medium">Silver gelatin print</div><div class="dimensions">20.2 x 25.3 cm</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Stan Healy</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Poker</em></div><div class="medium">Silver gelatin print with colour overprint</div><div class="dimensions">6.2 x 9 cm</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Anonymous</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Palm Beach</em></div><div class="signed_and_dated">Press credit stamp on verso</div><div class="medium">Hand painted unique vintage silver gelatin print</div><div class="dimensions">6 x 20.3 cm</div><div class="edition_details">Annotations in pencil on verso</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Fritz Henle</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Police Hollywood</em></div><div class="signed_and_dated">Black Star stamps on verso</div><div class="medium">Vintage gelatin silver print </div><div class="dimensions">20.6 x 24.2 cm</div><div class="edition_details">Title in pencil on verso</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Anonymous</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Paris Types</em></div><div class="signed_and_dated">Rapho and Black Star stamps on verso</div><div class="medium">Vintage silver gelatin print</div><div class="dimensions">18 x 23 cm</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Anonymous</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Untitled, Paris</em></div><div class="signed_and_dated">Black Star stamp and other stamps on verso</div><div class="medium">Hand painted unique vintage silver gelatin print</div><div class="dimensions">18.8 x 19 cm</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Anonymous</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Bare Back</em></div><div class="signed_and_dated">Clarke Pictures stamp on verso</div><div class="medium">Vintage gelatin silver print </div><div class="dimensions">20.3 x 25.2 cm</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Anonymous</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>'American Negroes'</em></div><div class="signed_and_dated">Annotations in pencil on verso</div><div class="medium">Vintage gelatin silver print </div><div class="dimensions">19.3 x 23.7 cm</div><div class="edition_details">Black Star and other stamps on verso</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Anonymous</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Paris by night</em></div><div class="signed_and_dated">Titled in pencil on print verso</div><div class="medium">Vintage silver gelatin print</div><div class="dimensions">17.5 x 19.5 cm</div><div class="edition_details">Various credit stamps on print verso</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Anonymous</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>Untitled</em>, c 1950</div><div class="medium">Vintage silver gelatin print</div><div class="dimensions">20.3 x 25.4 cm</div>
<div class="artist"><span class="artist"><strong>Anonymous</strong></span></div><div class="title"><em>New York Jazz Festival, 1960’s</em></div><div class="signed_and_dated">Title and annotations in pencil on verso</div><div class="medium">Vintage gelatin silver print </div><div class="dimensions">20 x 24 cm</div><div class="edition_details">Black Star and other stamp on verso, as well as stamps scrubbed out</div>
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In this online exhibition we take a plunge into the vernacular and bring you some beautiful images of people 'Passing Time'. All images on display are available to buy online exclusively via our website.

These images explore life at leisure. From the thrills of high diving and swimming for oysters to moody scenes in bars and anonymous signers of the blues. Very little is known about each photograph and even the photographers themselves are often unknown. With the exact detail and context being elusive, one of the attractions of these images often lies in the projection of your own stories upon the characters captured.

 

Whilst we appreciate and champion the great names of photography, the anonymous picture, sometimes referred to as the 'snap-shot' or vernacular, is a part of photography that has gained tremendous attraction over the past 10 years, and many collectors find this area more stimulating as it carries none of the baggage that collecting names can include. 

 

 

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