Abstract
This is a book about discovering your ancestors through the images they leave behind. My grandpa died when I was very young, but I am lucky he had a passion for photography as I can learn about his life through his eyes via his pictures. He created thousands of slides covering both work and pleasure, even better it was all in Kodachrome.
My grandfather worked as an architect and town planner, he designed buildings and planned housing developments. He was very influenced by European design, spending 26 years building people houses and making life better for thousands. He was also very well travelled, photographing the world in beautiful colour, from bullet ridden Beirut hotels to neon lit northern European backstreets he captured a world that is now lost.
This book gathers the best of his photography work, across hundreds of images as yet unseen to the world, we gain a glimpse into the world of post-war architecture, as well as what it was like to travel the world in the era before mass-tourism. Through high quality scans we can see through my grandfather's eyes via the lens of Kodak's Kodachrome.
My grandfather worked as an architect and town planner, he designed buildings and planned housing developments. He was very influenced by European design, spending 26 years building people houses and making life better for thousands. He was also very well travelled, photographing the world in beautiful colour, from bullet ridden Beirut hotels to neon lit northern European backstreets he captured a world that is now lost.
This book gathers the best of his photography work, across hundreds of images as yet unseen to the world, we gain a glimpse into the world of post-war architecture, as well as what it was like to travel the world in the era before mass-tourism. Through high quality scans we can see through my grandfather's eyes via the lens of Kodak's Kodachrome.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Lulu |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-008-98483-7 |
| Publication status | Published - 31 Dec 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Dr Tristan Hotham is a researcher of social media and politics, he holds a PhD in social media campaigning from the University of Bath. Tristan consults upon digital media’s impact upon the world and how to research social media. He is the Founder of the Social Media Research Centre, a research house and consultancy that seeks to make social media research better.He is an expert in social media platforms, from TikTok to Facebook and Twitter. He has extensive experience examining social media phenomena including; elections, audiences, content effects, communications flow, engagement, content forms, party politics and campaigning. He utilises a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies to examine the black box of social media.
Outside of his work, he loves history and photography, as such gathering and scanning the unique images within this book was an enjoyable task.
You can learn more about him via www.tristanhotham.com
You can learn about the Social Media Research Centre via www.socialmediaresearchcentre.com
Keywords
- kodachrome
- architecture
- travel
- photography
- photos
- kodak
