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Violet in blue, (having to sell the land), 1991

 

For most of the year

my father worked at the Morris Motors car factory near Oxford.

 

He lived for the annual returns to his farm

and dreamt of retiring to Mayo.

 

But his old house was in disrepair

and the only way he could afford to build a new house

was to sell his land.

He had hung on to it for all these years,

refusing my mother’s entreaties to sell

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Wed 20 Oct 2021    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/oct/20/
fair-play-tom-woods-visions-of-ireland-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Towards) Netherton, 1989

 

Photographs in the book

include those from his most well-known series,

including All Zones Off Peak and Bus Odyssey,

which were shot over 18 years

as Wood travelled across the city by bus.

 

The photographs capture Liverpool in motion,

from the crowds at bus stops to the introspective passengers,

and the views of the city

from the elevated perspective of the bus window

 

Mersey paradise:

a tour through retro Liverpool – in pictures

Tom Wood spent decades

photographing the pubs, clubs and bus rides of Liverpool

– and the people who inhabited them.

His new book paints

an affectionate portrait of his adopted home town

G

Thu 6 Aug 2020    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/06/
mersey-paradise-a-tour-through-retro-liverpool-in-pictures#img-3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

London Road (‘Meet you by the fish van’), 1989

 

From time to time

Wood has used old cine film

and out-of-date film stock for his pictures.

This lends a grainy quality to his images,

most evident in his Bus Journeys series.

 

This photograph was taken, Wood says,

from a moving bus.

 

There’s ‘the Monument pub referencing Liverpool’s seafaring history,

the fish stall outside, the boy looking a bit like a sailor.

 

As I used wide-angle lenses from the bus,

the individual details became almost as small

as the grain of the film’

 

Mersey paradise:

a tour through retro Liverpool – in pictures

Tom Wood spent decades

photographing the pubs, clubs and bus rides of Liverpool

– and the people who inhabited them.

His new book paints an affectionate portrait of his adopted home town

G

Thu 6 Aug 2020    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/06/
mersey-paradise-a-tour-through-retro-liverpool-in-pictures#img-3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rachel, Age 17, 1985

‘I met Rachel a few years earlier.

She was modelling a bridesmaid dress

for a friend and I took the photos,’ says Wood. ‘

There’s also a photo of Rachel at 31

with two of her daughters alongside this image

in my new book, 101 Pictures’

 

Mersey paradise:

a tour through retro Liverpool – in pictures

Tom Wood spent decades

photographing the pubs, clubs and bus rides of Liverpool

– and the people who inhabited them.

His new book paints an affectionate portrait of his adopted home town

G

Thu 6 Aug 2020    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/06/
mersey-paradise-a-tour-through-retro-liverpool-in-pictures#img-3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Their Pride and Joy, 1983-84

 

Wood shot more than 3,000 rolls of film photographing Liverpool.

Collectively, the photographs create

an affectionate document of the city and its inhabitants

during this period

 

Mersey paradise:

a tour through retro Liverpool – in pictures

Tom Wood spent decades

photographing the pubs, clubs and bus rides of Liverpool

– and the people who inhabited them.

His new book paints an affectionate portrait of his adopted home town

G

Thu 6 Aug 2020    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/06/
mersey-paradise-a-tour-through-retro-liverpool-in-pictures#img-3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Day Out, 1982

‘Many Liverpool families came to New Brighton on day trips.

Sometimes half a dozen mothers with 10 or 20 children,

from one street or block of flats.

I used a large-format view camera for these formal portraits.

I’d always take their names and addresses and send a print’

 

 

Mersey paradise:

a tour through retro Liverpool – in pictures

Tom Wood spent decades

photographing the pubs, clubs and bus rides of Liverpool

– and the people who inhabited them.

His new book paints an affectionate portrait of his adopted home town

G

Thu 6 Aug 2020    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/06/
mersey-paradise-a-tour-through-retro-liverpool-in-pictures#img-3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom Wood

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jul/19/
four-lovers-kiss-on-a-railway-platform-tom-woods-best-photograph

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/oct/20/
fair-play-tom-woods-visions-of-ireland-in-pictures

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/06/
mersey-paradise-a-tour-through-retro-liverpool-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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