Picadilly circus in the 50s

When I moved out of my flat a couple of weeks back, the landlord said I could take a few of the pictures as they were not his, had been left by the previous owner... In the storage cupboard where the ironing board and hoover were kept, I found these...

Original photographic prints, not art prints.

wow those are amazing

i you look close, u can see jonny under the lampost on his bike :p

dang! those signs are wicked, wouldn't mind swapping them for that mcd shit we're seeing nowadays

man you should send them off to the beeb or something - people'd like to see them...

or give them to me...

They are a nice size too, roughtly A3 and A4 is, 10x8 etc?

Yeah, might be worth sending to the Beeb?

meh i got busted runing a red light there on sunday,
1 minute after abusing pedestrians for crossing the road in front of me when i had a green light
karma is a bitch

those are really cool photos btw

Take them to the V&A perhaps, they'd be interested to see them. However, the sad likelihood is that if you gave them to the museum then they'd get filed away in a dusty box. I reckon you should get them framed properly or something, they really are wicked photos.

Try the Criterion restaurant (right next to the statue of Eros), they may like to buy them from you for display.

just frame them properly i wouldn't give them to the V&A and certainly not to the bbc who are well known amongst professional photographers for rights grabbing images from the public, they use any images sent in for competitions etc for their own image library and in their small print get the copyright from you when you submit but still leave you liable to any infringement (no model/property release etc).

copyright stays with the owner or their estate for 70 years after their death, you have no rights over the image content so cannot resell/lend or hire, you could sell the prints though (owning the print does not give you publishing rights in the same way owning a cd does not give you the right to copy and resell or play in public)

they are beautiful would love to have found them and ...holy shit piccadilly circus is advertising trixie chix!

They aint for sale.... I want them for myself.
They are alread frames, just took these pics on my phone to show.

bet Piccadilly looked amazing at night?

won't they fade like hell if he frames them though?

reminds me of a pic of camden intersection circa 1930's, when they had trams through there.

nimhbus won't they fade like hell if he frames them though?

if they were fixed and washed properly when first printed then they should have a long display life, or if they were toned in selenium even longer. if they were not mounted on acid free paper/board then discoloration will occur but i would expect that to have happened within a few years of them being mounted.

i found these colours ones, so weird!!

is this the same era? shows the big signs

The colour one looks like a Disney film!!!

Think they have been fixed pretty well, though one I didn't take, a picture of the docks, had started to fade,
a bit like when you split tone an image, so I guess the bleach was not fully washed off or it didn't fix right?

I am hanging them away from direct sunlight anyway, and they have been in the frames for at least 10 years?

there're a few old london pics on flickr..

here's that camden one DB :

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/320445407_cf55ca7962_o.jpg

you know i tried so hard to find that pic!!

i found this image of an old cockney nutjob!...amazing.

is that your polo mascot?

"i you look close, u can see jonny under the lampost on his bike :p"

nice one dogs, here is me just as i was leaving the house on the way to piccadilly ;)

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"i you look close, u can see jonny under the lampost on his bike :p"

nice one dogs, here is me just as i was leaving the house on the way to piccadilly ;)

geez, only took you 2 months to come up with a pic :p

you haven't aged a bit!