"I believe this power of seeing the world as fresh and strange lies hidden in every human being. In most of us it is dormant. Yet it is there, even if it is no more than a vague desire, an unsatisfied appetite that cannot discover its own nourishment….This should be the photographer’s aim, for this is the purpose that pictures fulfill in the world as it is to-day. To meet a need that people cannot or will not meet for themselves. We are most of us too busy, too worried, too intent on proving ourselves right, too obsessed with ideas, to stand and stare."
~ Bill Brandt
(1904-1983)
“The Lambeth Walk” is a song from the 1937 musical “Me and My Girl”. The song takes its name from a local street once notable for its street market and working class culture in Lambeth, a working class area in London. The tune gave its name to a cockney dance first made popular in 1937 by Lupino Lane. The story line of the original show concerns a Cockney barrow boy who inherits an Earldom, tres posh but almost loses his London girlfriend. This is one of Brandt’s truly great images. Although dressed in an ill fitting assortment of clothes, she performs with elegance and self possession. Please click on the link from the film below and feel free to drop what ever you are doing now and start to dance. It will put a smile on your face and you will feel great.
