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Six Bells. The last chapel walk.

The congregation from various chapels

join the walk as the singers pass their chapel.

This was the last one I heard of in Wales.

1975

 

Photograph: David Hurn

Magnum Photos

 

David Hurn is one of the UK’s

most celebrated reportage photographers

– and his images of his native Wales

are full of wit, energy and love

He also founded a respected documentary photography course,

which he taught for 15 years in Newport.

Land of my fathers: Wales at work, rest and play – in pictures

G

Wednesday 1 June 2016    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/01/
photographer-david-hurn-wales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abertillery. Sarah enjoys the realities of never ending fantasies.

1974

 

Photograph: David Hurn

Magnum Photos

 

David Hurn is one of the UK’s

most celebrated reportage photographers

– and his images of his native Wales

are full of wit, energy and love

He also founded a respected documentary photography course,

which he taught for 15 years in Newport.

Land of my fathers: Wales at work, rest and play – in pictures

G

Wednesday 1 June 2016    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/01/
photographer-david-hurn-wales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cwm. Seniors dance in the local social club.

1998

 

Photograph: David Hurn

Magnum Photos

 

David Hurn is one of the UK’s

most celebrated reportage photographers

– and his images of his native Wales

are full of wit, energy and love

He also founded a respected documentary photography course,

which he taught for 15 years in Newport.

Land of my fathers: Wales at work, rest and play – in pictures

G

Wednesday 1 June 2016    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/01/
photographer-david-hurn-wales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Six Bells. Children’s fun on site of old colliery.

1994

 

Photograph: David Hurn

Magnum Photos

 

David Hurn is one of the UK’s

most celebrated reportage photographers

– and his images of his native Wales

are full of wit, energy and love

He also founded a respected documentary photography course,

which he taught for 15 years in Newport.

Land of my fathers: Wales at work, rest and play – in pictures

G

Wednesday 1 June 2016    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/01/
photographer-david-hurn-wales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cwm. The women’s choir.

1998

 

Photograph: David Hurn

Magnum Photos

 

David Hurn is one of the UK’s

most celebrated reportage photographers

– and his images of his native Wales

are full of wit, energy and love

He also founded a respected documentary photography course,

which he taught for 15 years in Newport.

Land of my fathers: Wales at work, rest and play – in pictures

G

Wednesday 1 June 2016    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/01/
photographer-david-hurn-wales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abertillery. Children’s party.

1974

 

Photograph: David Hurn

Magnum Photos

 

David Hurn is one of the UK’s

most celebrated reportage photographers

– and his images of his native Wales

are full of wit, energy and love

He also founded a respected documentary photography course,

which he taught for 15 years in Newport.

Land of my fathers: Wales at work, rest and play – in pictures

G

Wednesday 1 June 2016    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/01/
photographer-david-hurn-wales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cwm. Easter Chapel walk

and the placing of the cross on the top of the local mountain.

1999

 

Photograph: David Hurn

Magnum Photos

 

David Hurn is one of the UK’s

most celebrated reportage photographers

– and his images of his native Wales

are full of wit, energy and love

He also founded a respected documentary photography course,

which he taught for 15 years in Newport.

Land of my fathers:

Wales at work, rest and play – in pictures

G

Wednesday 1 June 2016    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/01/
photographer-david-hurn-wales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Queen Charlotte’s Ball (London, 1967)

 

The highlight of what was called

‘the debutante season’ and ‘coming out’.

It had its roots in the 18th century when, around 1780,

the king, George III, held a ball for his wife’s birthday.

It was proposed that the well bred and prettiest girls

should be presented at court to the Queen,

in order that they could meet a suitable marriage partner,

known as the ‘debs’ delights’

 

Photograph: David Hurn

 

Dolly Partons and debutantes:

a Welshman’s view of Arizona – in pictures

Photograph: David Hurn/Magnum Photos

 

David Hurn moved from wet,

socialist Wales to a scorching, rightwing state in the US

– but his eye for life’s eccentricities remained unchanged

G

Tue 23 May 2023    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/may/23/
dolly-partons-and-debutantes-a-welshmans-view-of-arizona-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Hurn

 

one of the UK’s

most celebrated

reportage photographers

– and his images

of his native Wales

are full of wit,

energy and love.

 

Hurn was born in Surrey

but grew up

and still lives in Wales.

 

He is dyslexic.

 

He joined the army,

but eventually ended up

working for the Reflex

photo agency.

 

He began his career

in the 1950s,

covering current affairs

such as the Hungarian revolution,

but moved away

from news journalism.

 

His breakthrough moment

was, as he told Vice,

‘a photo in a copy of Picture Post.

 

In the army

we were led to believe

that all Russians

ate their children,

but I saw this photo

of a Russian army officer

buying his wife a hat

in a department store.

 

And I started to cry ...

 

Suddenly I realised

that I believed

much more in the photo

than I did in any propaganda.

 

I realised that photography

really can move people,

just by being accurate’.

 

He had various

glamorous assignments,

including photographing

James Bond posters

and Jane Fonda

filming Barbarella,

and hiding Ringo Starr

from paparazzi.

 

But he also celebrated

the less starry world

of ordinary people in Wales.

 

‘I decided

that if I went around Wales,

and maybe made some books

– one on the places people live,

one on the way people live,

one on the landscape

they live in and so on

– then maybe I could eventually

come to understand

what that culture is,’ he said.

 

‘And that’s basically

what I do.

I enjoy photographing

the mundane’

 

He also founded

a respected documentary

photography course,

which he taught for 15 years

in Newport.

 

In the joy and warmth he depicts,

he seems to take his own advice

in his influential book

On Being a Photographer:

 

‘Individual picture

 can be very important

even when rationally,

intellectually made,

but the bodies of work,

the lifetime achievements

of a photographer,

which impress me most

are those based in love

as well as knowledge’

 

‘In a real sense,

photography has fulfilled

the Greek ideal of art;

 

it should not only improve

the photographer,

but also improve the world’,

he claims

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/01/
photographer-david-hurn-wales

 

 

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