The onslaught
The following biography of Gilbert Holiday is provided by Sarah Colgrave Art: The following timeline is far from complete. It has been compiled by Peter Scott-Gordon from material available in … Continue reading The onslaught
Tag: Photography
Perhaps I was history itself
This film is based on faded photographs displayed in the window of the now vacant Radio & Gramophone Co, 9 Canongate, Jedburgh: Perhaps I was time itself: To play this … Continue reading Perhaps I was history itself
gold-leaf albums
An Antiquary odd, in these days! old family albums – gold-leaf fraying at the edges Hard-bound lifeless moments. Artfully-posed eyes stare back meaningless, lost without their stories.
She gangs in brawness
This homemade film is for Ella Rae (a dear friend whose voice closes the film), Catriona my older sister, and Rachel my daughter. Ella Rae died some years ago. I … Continue reading She gangs in brawness
of absence and presence
In 1855, Duncan Brown, Janitor for the Glasgow School of Art and pioneering amateur photographer, took a photograph of five men and two boys in a garden . . . … Continue reading of absence and presence
‘Waterproof Jim Tree’ [rendevous of the ‘Half-holiday Recreation Club’]
The above photograph was taken by William Edgar Evans in his boyhood. On the back he wrote: “‘Waterproof Jim Tree’ beside the Addevans Burn, rendevous of the ‘Half-holiday Recreation Club’ … Continue reading ‘Waterproof Jim Tree’ [rendevous of the ‘Half-holiday Recreation Club’]
W. E. Evans
Introducing William Edgar Evans: That moment [3rd from left, back row]: To play this short film please click here or on the image above Music credit: ‘Familiar to Ignore’ by … Continue reading W. E. Evans
I am a camera with its shutter open
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). The RCAHMS Leica III camera purchased in 1938, photographed with Angus Graham’s field notebooks and diary.