Sunday 8 June 2014

A Day with Dickens with a 21st Century Camera Part 1


                         Charles Dickens frontispiece from a book on my bookshelf.


 I come from Tunbridge Wells where Thackeray has a blue plaque on a house where he stayed which is now a restaurant in his name. Here in The Dickens Museum he has a blue plate, there is a certain synchronicity in this and I feel at home.


                    What a place to absorb the atmosphere. To listen to ghosts past .



To climb the stairs and enter the study, and see a full waste paper basket.



 Dress in Character for the day ahead. For today was not just a day at The Dickens Museum it had an added dimension. It was a chance to go beyond 48 Doughty Street into the London that Dickens paced and view some of the sights that he saw but with a 21st Century perspective with the talented photographer Andrea Artz.


 But, before I show how my photography has changed because of this master-class with The Magic Lantern I feel it is important to absorb the atmosphere.



                 Wallpaper from Dickens's Bedroom, where some of his children were born.



 Mary Hogarth's bedroom, Dickens's sister-in-law, who tragically died at aged 17.The guide book states:

 
          'Young, beautiful and good, God numbered her with His Angels....'



  And up into the servants' bedrooms to stand in front of a famous quote from the master himself.



 Oh look, a copy of Our Mutual Friend is on the piano and so I decided to write this post in two episodes to follow a Dickensian tradition.


So enjoy looking at the books for what better way to think about Dickens before picking up a camera and exploring the streets that he walked.




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