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Arts > Photo > 20th, 21st century > UK > Tom Wood
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 G Wed 20 Oct 2021 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/oct/20/
(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/
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From time to time Wood has used old cine film and out-of-date film stock for his pictures.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/
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/
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/
Our Day Out, 1982 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/
Tom Wood
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jul/19/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/oct/20/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/06/
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