{"id":10,"date":"2007-05-19T04:23:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T04:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/2007\/05\/19\/james-ravilious-a-world-in-photographs\/"},"modified":"2007-05-19T04:23:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T04:23:50","slug":"james-ravilious-a-world-in-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/2007\/05\/19\/james-ravilious-a-world-in-photographs\/","title":{"rendered":"James Ravilious : A world in photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Fenwick, a quiet member of the Leica Users&#8217; Group and Rolleiusers, tipped me about an English photographer that I had not heard of. We were talking about older lenses and techniques to keep them in line (using a lens shade, basically).<\/p>\n<p>The English photographer was James Ravilious, who died in 1999. For about two decades Ravilious devoted his time to documenting a disappearing form of rural life, the small farmer, around Devon. He developed a very characteristic style of low contrast, detailed photography, all in black and white. One of his techniques was to use old uncoated Leica lenses, well shaded.<\/p>\n<p>I visit his web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesravilious.com\">James Ravilious<\/a> fairly often and under publications I ran across a DVD that has been made by <i>banyak films<\/i>, narrated by Alan Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>It is a fascinating film about Ravilious. The people he took pictures of are revisited and they reflect back on his visits, many times taking their departure point from a photograph he had taken of them, their barns or their fields.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend it highly. You can order it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedo.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk\/banyak\/ravilious.html\">Banyak<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Fenwick, a quiet member of the Leica Users&#8217; Group and Rolleiusers, tipped me about an English photographer that I had not heard of. We were talking about older lenses and techniques to keep them in line (using a lens shade, basically). The English photographer was James Ravilious, who died in 1999. For about two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}