John Gay (born Hans Gohler 1909 Karlshe, Germany, died 1999 Highgate) was a web | tle =John Gay Blackpool 1949 | work = | publisher =English Herage | url |…
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JOHN GAY OBUARY
This is part of the Seri: GAY01/03 Highgate and Hampstead; wh the Collectn: GAY01 John Gay Collectn. Photographer: Gay, John. The photographer, garner and potter John Gay, who has died aged 89, had an unassumg disposn, which ncealed the range and pth of his artistry even om many of those who knew him his photographic work was black and whe.
John Betjeman scribed him as one of his favoure photographers, and together they published London's Historic Railway Statns (1972) which Gay's pictur of statn ironwork were an outstandg feature. As the sun beats down on , seems like a good time to choose a llectn that particularly evok the perfect summer idyll of mid-century England, as ptured through the mera of John Gay (1909-1999). Like many photographers begng to work the 1930s and '40s, John Gay was part of a creative German diaspora who chose to move to, and fe reers , Bra followg Hler's rise to power.
JOHN GAY (PHOTOGRAPHER)
Gay's extensive photography llectn to via our reprentatn of the Historic England archive, where his visn of this untry through s archecture, towns, villag and people feels tly at home. Wherever he poted his mera, Gay was apt at pturg the very sence of England; om still, sleepy villag to thedral-like railway statns; Cornish fishg boats to Chelsea Flower Show; a btlg Blackpool beach to the wdow of a village ke shop, wh the nos of children prsed upon . Bat, yet Gay's skilful e of light and shadow, and his crisp executn prevents his imag scendg to sentimentaly, pl there are many other imag documentg multi-faceted London and morn archectural velopments of the perd.