Thursday, May 15th 2008
Photographic memory
For three decades, George Plemper’s photographic record of South London working-class life gathered dust in carrier bags, only disturbed each time he moved home.
He hoped that one day the images might be recognised as a significant social record of a community and a landscape. At the time, in the late 1970s, this was not a fashionable photographic subject, so Plemper’s hopes seemed as unlikely to be fulfilled as his mother’s fantasy that he might become chairman of ICI.
It would be nearly 30 years later, with the emergence of a new media platform that gives us the potential to be producers, broadcasters and exhibitors, that Plemper finally unpacked his bags.
The turning point came with the launch of Flickr, the webpage that does for photographs what YouTube does for home videos and Facebook for friendship.
George’s photographs can be seen here.
You can read more about the history of George Plemper’s photographs by clicking here.
Posted by Richard on Thursday 15th of May 2008 at 9:45am
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Read more about the history of George Plemper's photographs <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/14/communities.society">here</a>;
Posted by Clare Horton on Friday 16th of May 2008 at 11:23am