David Ford's articles
Who are these people who inhabit this nocturnal world?
This is the first in a series of three essays exploring different aspects of vernacular photographs of nightlife. The images used in the essays are all from the author's own collection and were acquired over the last twenty years from flea-markets, antique fairs and secondhand bookshops. Such photographs are increasingly hard to find as they are hidden in boxes of family and holiday snapshots which are now often seen as having no value.
Last good time – Snapshots of happiness from the 1960s and 1970s
In the second essay in this series, David Ford looks at personal snapshots of nightlife from the 1960s and 1970s. What happened when people started to take their own photographs of their social life? How did it change the look and feel of the photographs and the way in which people were depicted?
