Headlines
83 images Created 12 Aug 2022
Through the newspaper headlines of the day, I have seen both world events and the cultural trivials of the day, as reported on London's streets.
I would have started taking these pictures in the early days of the Katz Pictures agency when we'd typically sell our editorial photography to magazines (and back to the newspaper themselves) to help illustrate whatever news or media opinion, was relevant that week.
I've realised that I have hundreds of similar pictures in this archive so it seemed worthwhile to revisit them and curate a sizeable number into this gallery. And it's been a revelation - for not only do we see world and local events unfolding on the front pages that appeared every day on the street (usually the first editions are from three-thirty every weekday afternoon), but we see how we looked and dressed. Our hair and suits, the typography and buses.
So from 1989 when the capital's transport woes were shouted from the kiosks and vendors; Prime Ministers and Presidents who came and went; economies that peaked and plunged and a pandemic which crept up on us - at a time when no-one seemed to be taking notice, showing us as an oblivious society, blindly hoping it won't come our way. Then finally it's back to more transport strife. There is gloom and there is optimism and although the former seems to dominate what we're being told daily, I think it says something about how the wider media informs us: Tell the people there is trouble ahead - but always keep them entertained.
UPDATE: In May 2024, the Evening Standard has announced that they are to cease their daily print editions, making this collection of pictures the more intriguing.
I would have started taking these pictures in the early days of the Katz Pictures agency when we'd typically sell our editorial photography to magazines (and back to the newspaper themselves) to help illustrate whatever news or media opinion, was relevant that week.
I've realised that I have hundreds of similar pictures in this archive so it seemed worthwhile to revisit them and curate a sizeable number into this gallery. And it's been a revelation - for not only do we see world and local events unfolding on the front pages that appeared every day on the street (usually the first editions are from three-thirty every weekday afternoon), but we see how we looked and dressed. Our hair and suits, the typography and buses.
So from 1989 when the capital's transport woes were shouted from the kiosks and vendors; Prime Ministers and Presidents who came and went; economies that peaked and plunged and a pandemic which crept up on us - at a time when no-one seemed to be taking notice, showing us as an oblivious society, blindly hoping it won't come our way. Then finally it's back to more transport strife. There is gloom and there is optimism and although the former seems to dominate what we're being told daily, I think it says something about how the wider media informs us: Tell the people there is trouble ahead - but always keep them entertained.
UPDATE: In May 2024, the Evening Standard has announced that they are to cease their daily print editions, making this collection of pictures the more intriguing.
