Robert Bloomfield is one of history’s greatest photographers. He is a man who never cared about photo-fame, if you know what I mean. I have literally wept while gazing at his images. The emotional entanglement is irresistible, inescapable, and overwhelming. One thing escapes the dialogues, it seems. He recorded a lot of history. One cannot look at his images without the halt of wonderment about the historical composition.
@deanamcdougall7192Ай бұрын
Just found this and would like to thank you.This is the Glasgow I grew up in ,they are beautiful images. Be. proud your father left a legacy.Thank you again.
@gazzofazzofarrell3713Ай бұрын
born 71 in carntyne at that goucho clip so a was about 14 then,some many memories of the shit housing and aw the folk around ma age ravedged wae the drug epidemic,it all ties in...london hated us🏴
@billhennig1087Ай бұрын
Covered neatly, prime way.
@ChristineWilsonPhotographyАй бұрын
Excellent, glad to have discovered Roberts photographs, wonderful work
@ChristineWilsonPhotographyАй бұрын
Very nostalgic, love his work
@RHKingArt2 ай бұрын
A compelling short piece. Some truly wonderful imagery and footage nicely edited. I’m off to investigate more.
@Chris-hp8yf2 ай бұрын
Hello Steven. I like the way you’ve made the film title slide in behind and out front of the architecture in the opening sequence. The monochromes and scarlet make a very eye catching visual. Thank you for blessing us through the sharing of your very evident creativity.
@johnkelly-pd3vq2 ай бұрын
Just watched it for the 2nd time, gets better each time👏👏
@PaulTakesPhotos3 ай бұрын
Love your work and having been to Glasgow many a time I believe it is such a great community for street and documentary photography. Just subbed Keep doing what your doing 👍⭐⭐⭐
@intercoreuk3 ай бұрын
Nice vid.thanks
@gordonstenson27083 ай бұрын
Fantastic footage and beautifully put together, the songs are amazing. How lucky are we in the present time. My faither was born in 1919 and I can understand how in his later years how content he was despite how horrible these times were, however it produced a lot of the most decent people who were wise and gave so much.
@IshwaraYogaNET3 ай бұрын
Just wonderful .... I came to walk round Simon's exhibition three times, to soak up the feeling, observe some of the technical choices and to be inspired anew each time
@charlesshields3053 ай бұрын
The man Steven elaborates on at 6:14ff is standing where the foot of Portugal Street gives onto Norfolk Street, so that corner pub isn't the Seaforth, which is in Gorbals Street, as the other snaps show. This snap is looking towards Gorbals Cross. I was born in Portugal Street.
@dianeegan21724 ай бұрын
Granddad born and raised in the old gorbals turned out alright
@danielbeggan80244 ай бұрын
Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, 🎼🎶🎵🎶🎺
@igaluitchannel66444 ай бұрын
Amazing work!
@BrianKeenan-pr1fd4 ай бұрын
Born and bred there went to school holy cross it's a tip now shame
@ministryofanti-feminism14935 ай бұрын
Shame about the Commie shit towards the end.
@neolithicwoodsrunner5 ай бұрын
shite hole then, shite hole now. Great wee film though.
@boyfromblackstuff78595 ай бұрын
Very interesting, thanks for posting.
@irnbrubhoy5 ай бұрын
And that’s why loads of people took heroin and got AIDS. What a shite hole.
@lafamillecarrington5 ай бұрын
Thanks. I'm thinking of simply photographing the paper at the end to prevent it being a one-off image. One question; is there a latency on the paper? So would a brief exposure to white light make the paper more sensitive?
@chasmala5 ай бұрын
This was shot in 16 mm 4x3 aspect ratio It is shown in 16x9 therefore some of the framing doesn’t seem quite right.
@radioandtvmemories61785 ай бұрын
An absolute mess of a film
@chasmala5 ай бұрын
How So ? Won Best Documentary at Scottish Amateur Film Festival picked up an award at the World Festival of Youth & Students shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival lots of people who know about film making would disagree with you
@winstonschwarz16365 ай бұрын
Laughable in it's fetishizing of slums and poverty as an indication of authenticity. The main currency of Glasgow, even today, is hate and especially sectarian bigotry.
@johnkelly-pd3vq5 ай бұрын
Beautiful, so loved this, inspiring
@johnkelly-pd3vq5 ай бұрын
This was so good
@myownprivateglasgow2805 ай бұрын
U need to get into the hills that make Glasgow in order to be a Glaswegian. Not the fkn shipyards and shitholes.
@gagi62946 ай бұрын
Awesome. These photographs are a great example of a metamodern immanent transcendence.
@2msvalkyrie5296 ай бұрын
Lived in Glasgow 1975 -81 . The Music / the fashion / the ease of life at that time seems like a dream now. Walked down Union St recently. Charity shop / Sweet shop / Vape shop / Charity shop / Poundland / Vape shop etc..etc..
@aclark9036 ай бұрын
I don’t see charity shops or poundlands as bad tho. Better than empty shells. Vape shops on the other hand- bloody vampires, feeding off poverty and despair.
@transferdatathreewally245 ай бұрын
I was a small kid in south west glasgow mid 70s. My glasgow was and is green, leafy, beautiful, cosmic, near albert park. Lovely memories that are with me now. Right this instant, i feel im there. Stood looking at the cart and the trees. I think the junction of cart side street and carmichael place is a very special place.
@sapien825 ай бұрын
@@transferdatathreewally24 southside is the best , lived here for over a decade now and I love the parks
@petersneddon15796 ай бұрын
Thank you Steven as a 65year old Glasgow man from the Calton about a mile away you have brought the memories flooding back, it's lovely to me that you get the Glasgow people.
@aidanlynn6 ай бұрын
When people think of the 80s they think of neon and bright colours but I think of grey, because of films like this.
@Signaman-z9d15 күн бұрын
It really was gray in every way right down to the people.70s 80s we're the pit's in my city Dublin, it was very like Glasgow depressing. I'm a 60s baby from the workings class and I can tell you it was like something left over from a war. On top of that we had the church a double whammy.The contrasts to today in Dublin is another world.The downside the heart and soul has disappeared from the communities. The biggest problem Drug's they have turned communities upside down.Turned people against one another in once tight communities, greed money violence have replaced the heat and soul.✊☘️
@hoppy3036 ай бұрын
Geogaddi
@TheGrowler556 ай бұрын
I came from the same background in Glasgow in the Sixties and seventies, it's funny but when I was growing up in the Gorbals I never thought of it being deprived, just saying from Glasgow 😊👍😎🇬🇧
@StreetLevelPhoto6 ай бұрын
Thanks for reply. You are quite right in what you say - the perception of somewhere being 'deprived' can sometimes be an opinion 'looking in' rather than that lived. These are obviously Steven's opinions on how he saw it and continued to do so at the time of recording this work in 2018.
@derekogilvie69426 ай бұрын
stunning
@01r1sh7 ай бұрын
It's a crying shame I can only like this once. Can't wait for May having missed out on the first edition issue.
@margaretgray36007 ай бұрын
Well done Mary Mooney Cairns x
@dmgsoultogetherness66678 ай бұрын
bleak
@01r1sh8 ай бұрын
I remember visiting this exhibition. I found the image shown at 1:20 in particular very captivating and James (who was present) was very kind to explain the techniques and equipment utilised. Really enjoyed the exhibition.
@tychomagneticanomaly8 ай бұрын
Fantastic. You'll live on through your work!
@JIMMYCFC8 ай бұрын
The young guy at 21:12 I'd say that's defo bellrock path in cranhill & if it is I can't mind name it's bugging me cause I stayed just along from him. Great to see the old houses.
@joefear2516 ай бұрын
Aye, its bellrock path, its jamie tracey, he stayed at number 2.
@JIMMYCFC6 ай бұрын
@@joefear251 So it is i was thinking it was number 1. I mind Taw & ann marie well. Cheers pal.
@chasmala5 ай бұрын
My brother Thomas Tracey
@chasmala5 ай бұрын
@@joefear251Thomas Tracey
@JIMMYCFC5 ай бұрын
@@chasmala I mind your family well I was a young kid when your family lived there but Ann marie used to look after me with Carol & Marie mundy. Thomas is a good guy always stopped for chat or kick about.
@stephenreeds36328 ай бұрын
I've read Groupie. With respect, Jenny, wrap it up how you like, you were all "keckless Judys". Giving sex for a bit of undeserved fame. Found the book rather saddening. The free love was crap. If you were good looking and hopefully rich I'm sure it was great. Not for the ugly poor ones like me.
@mayvokalia9 ай бұрын
I came here after buying a record The Tree and The Bird and The Fish and The Bell, Glasgow songs by Glasgow artists, with front cover and insert from Marzaroli wonderful photography. Good album indeed!
@StreetLevelPhoto9 ай бұрын
thanks for your comments. you'll find more material on the photogrpher here; kzbin.info/aero/PLiVHWCplAetXJ0pHkSO5zeuAB3ckDUdWG
@Marc-so2cd9 ай бұрын
A horrible city. Human beings need to be happy like rabbits?? In Glasgow they definitely did breed like rabbits.
@govang51919 ай бұрын
Zionism is Antisemitism .
@Robert-c5k9 ай бұрын
Not sure how I came across this video ,popped up on my utube channel and so glad I watched it..Maybe Paul’s name or what ,anyway sitting here in Sydney Australia on New Year’s Day 23 it brought home to me how much you miss the islands and there people..Last visit to Barra was in 1978 and this year I hopefully will make my next visit and also to Vatersay..Was in Benbecula for 6 weeks summer of 2019 .Maybe that’s where I recall the name from ..