The story behind ...

[pdeeh]

The Guardian has an article each week in its Saturday weekend supplement, featuring a well-known or otherwise "interesting" photograph, and an interview with one of the protagonists (but not the photographer) recalling the circumstances in which it was taken.

The photographs are sometimes snaps, sometimes press shots, sometimes by "famous" photographers.

This week's featured one by Paul Strand http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/20/south-uist-1950s-croft-john-maclellan-paul-strand

The whole series is here http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/series/thats-me-in-the-picture

For people who like to know "the story behind", it can be worth a read, and of course (as in this example) you get to hear what the person photographed thought of the experience (and sometimes the photographer)

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

That's terrific. Thank you.

 

[Julie McLeod]

Thanks for sharing that. We do hear from the photographers a lot but very seldom from the subjects.

 

[CMoore]

The Guardian is great...and THAT is an awesome concept.
I often wonder about the subject (people) of a photograph.
Thanks For Posting

 

[pentaxuser]

Thanks for that,pdeeh. An interesting viewpoint of an elderly man recalling what it was like to be an eight year old being photographed. I imagine life was physically tough in the Hebrides in the 50s but there was a sort of protection as well that may be sadly lacking in the second decade of the 21st century especially in large urban communities for kids at the same age

pentaxuser

 

[pdeeh]

I expect in 2066 some old guy will be telling people what a golden age of freedom, wisdom, beauty and artistic achievement 2016 was