Photography

life captured in old photographs

I'm a huge fan of photography, old or new! I have been browsing through some amazing pictures form history and thought I must share these.

I love the atmosphere caught in these shots, all so different in comparison with today's society, hard to imagine the life and hardship that was captured in some of these photos.

Saying that, life was so much slower and more laid back in those days and sometimes I feel almost envious of the simplicity, as today's is life is so fast paced and hectic!

Here's a question, I wonder how many people used to go and see a psychologist due to stress and depression then and how many do now?

Tougher conditions meant tougher people, they were happy with so little, today we require so much to be content.

Could our society survive back in those days?

London Underground this rarely seen photograph reminds us just what an engineering feat the construction process was the creation of the central line 1898

Life on the Thames or as photographer John Thomson called it in 1876 the Silent Highway Two sailors head down the river in a barge

Summer days of 1852 Hippo Obaysch is spotted taking a nap in the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park He was donated by Egypt in 1850 in exchange for English greyhounds and deerhounds and he lived until 1878

Garment workers in NY tenement sweat shop 1908

Lunch atop a Skyscraper, 1932 taken by Charles C. Ebbets

Living Quarters of Workers Family in Old Time NY Tenament 1910

I have been searching through the Internet for some photos of home lots lately and have come to the conclusion that I must be very homesick! I'd like to share this link of photographs by this amazing photographer Steve Coleman, his photographs are so full of depth and magic, I get the feeling of actually being there myself. I wish I was there.......

for more images click the link bellow, please do!