John Piper Photographs, British Architecture

[Arthur]

 

The Tate have put on line almost 6000 black and white photographs of British buildings and architecture by John Piper.

 

John Piper was a painter, theatrical set designer and photographer who later worked with, and became a friend of, John Betjeman. His photographs were used in various AA travel guides. They cover the 1930's through to the 1980's, and if you like buildings, or are looking for modelling inspiration, you could lose hours here.

 

 

Here's the link,

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-piper-1774

 

And the start of the photo gallery,

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/search?aid=1774&arid=114&sort=acno

 

 

The Tate are looking for further information on the subjects portrayed.

[Bernard Lamb]

An interesting set of photographs.

Oh dear.

A shame about some of the captions.

It will make trying to find subjects rather difficult.

That's just looking at the first couple of pages.

I would have thought the Tate would do rather better than that.

Bernard

[Arthur]

 

Agreed Bernard, there's no effective search option.

 

Some personal favourites from the first twenty or so pages;

 

Tower Transport Cafe

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/tga-8728-1-2-31/piper-photograph-of-the-tower-transport-cafe-in-beenham-berkshire

 

The oddly named 'Seven Deadly Sins', Pangbourne, a house, a hotel?

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/tga-8728-1-2-168/piper-photograph-of-one-of-the-seven-deadly-sins-in-pangbourne-formerly-in-berkshire

 

Windsor Railway Station

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/tga-8728-1-2-292/piper-photograph-of-windsor-railway-station-berkshire

 

Cafe on the Great West Road

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/tga-8728-1-2-311/piper-photograph-of-a-roadside-cafe-on-the-great-west-road

[Metr0Land]

Agreed Bernard, there's no effective search option.

 

Some personal favourites from the first twenty or so pages;

 

 

The oddly named 'Seven Deadly Sins', Pangbourne, a house, a hotel?

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/tga-8728-1-2-168/piper-photograph-of-one-of-the-seven-deadly-sins-in-pangbourne-formerly-in-berkshire

 

 

 

House off ill repute?

 

 

Hat and coat on.......

[Bernard Lamb]

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/tga-8728-1-2-90/piper-photograph-of-stained-glass-window-in-st-michael-all-angels-parish-church-of-st

 

Tearing my hair out now.

Fascinating but frustrating and a big time waster.

This caption fails to state that it is actually Eaton Hastings.

I have always liked John piper's stained glass and have always had an interest in the stained glass of Morris and Co.

An obvious place for me to start. If subjects that I know about are wrongly or inadequately described then I fear for the spread of false information as these images become better known.

Bernard

[petethemole]

The first page is Bedfordshire and has one church in two locations. A totally random skip through the site came up with some great images though. I particularly liked this  http://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/tga-8728-1-10-51/piper-photograph-of-font-at-st-marys-church-in-melbury-bubb-dorset

 

Pete

[Arthur]

 

I think that Tate need to be clearer on the site. My understanding is that they genuinely don't know where many of the buildings are, those given are open to correction. On Radio 4's This Morning they were asking for the public to send in corrections, locations and details.

[clecklewyke]

Marvelous images but no effective search procedure. How can I find images of Yorkshire buildings from the nearly 6,000 photographs, randomly (possibly alphabetically by county?) ordered?

 

Or am I missing something?

 

Ian