Greetings vintage mates! Another weekend, another walk to somewhere cool. This time it’s the famous Camden Market in Camden town, London, in the same borough where I live. I should be so lucky (as the wonderful Kylie Minogue might say!).
The last time I visited Camden town was way back in the early 2000s. I was surprised how much the markets had changed, but ever present were the band tee-shirts, posters, music, books, jewellery, bric-a-brac and hippie stalls.
Greetings vintage mates. Having just moved house (and country), I’m exploring my new neighbourhood on my weekends off; you might say I’m a bit of a Day Tripper…Â making the most of things, because you know, Tomorrow Never Knows …
So, Yesterday, early Saturday morning, I woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head, and realised that I only lived a short walk away from the famous Abbey Road in London, where the Beatles recorded their 1969 album Abbey Road, and where they made their iconic walk across the zebra crossing for the photograph which appeared on the album cover.
The Beatles Abbey Road artwork. Image courtesy of UMG. Apple Records creative director Kosh designed the album cover. It is the only original UK Beatles album sleeve to show neither the artist name nor the album title on its front cover, which was Kosh’s idea. The front cover is a photograph of the group on a zebra crossing, based on ideas that McCartney sketched, and taken on 8 August 1969 outside EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) on Abbey Road. At 11:35 that morning, photographer Iain Macmillan was given only ten minutes to take the photo while he stood on a step-ladder and a policeman held up traffic behind the camera. Info by Wikipedia.
A visit to Abbey Road has always been on my bucket list, so, please join me, let us Come Together, as your humble vintage editor takes you on a short walk to Abbey Road…
Philippe Noyer and Mai Thu composite. Pénéla. 1968.
“What is lighter than a feather?
Dust.
Lighter than dust?
The wind.
Lighter than the wind?
A woman.
Lighter than a woman?
Nothing.”Â
Pénéla Présente Mai-Thu painter Vietamese. Photos Denis Manceaux. Penela No16. 1968.
Mai Thu (1906-1980) was a Vietnamese-French artist who made numerous studies depicting the young woman in her daily life and at ease in her surroundings. Philippe Noyer (1917-1985) was a French artist who also made numerous studies depicting the young woman in her daily life and at ease in her surroundings.
Confident, relaxed, serene, one with their environment – almost to the point of being in a dreamlike state, perhaps even bored at times – the young women in both artists’ studies occupy their places in nature and social environments with the fleeting presence of youth, captured in immortality by the tools of the artists.
Mai Thu and Noyer worked in the same time period throughout the 20th century. Both were French-connected and intrigued by the study of the young woman. TVTA is pleased to present their two differing styles, courtesy of scans from 1968 editions of Pénéla Magazine, with text by Françoise Louviot and photos by Denis Manceaux.
Pénéla Présente Mai-Thu painter Vietamese. Photos Denis Manceaux. Penela No16 1968.
The young girls are already women. Philippe Noyer article par Françoise Louviot. Penela No18. 1968.
Pénéla Présente Mai-Thu painter Vietamese. Photos Denis Manceaux. Penela No16. 1968.
Greetings vintage mates! Hope you’re all doing just fine and dandy?
Well, TVTA is still here, although we’re a little bit over there, and maybe just a bit over that way, or this way, or up the road, or down the road, or across the water… heck, we’re gonna need an atlas!
Charles Atlas. “Let me prove I can make you a new man!” 1976 advert. US.
Erm, not Charles Atlas, but you know what we mean. Thank you, Charles.
So, long story short, your humble editor and his intrepid office cat Wooof has moved offices. Not local, but abroad. Change of country. Yikes! Our office equipment is all packed up and waiting to join us, our new scanning room is bereft for the moment of a … yep, scanner. Mrs Coldkettle the tealady is still trying to sort her visa. But we’re getting there… (wherever there is). So where exactly is ‘there’ ?
It was almost Dubai. Then California. Then Melbourne. Then finally…
clue as to where our new offices are located:
Tower of London. Published by The Ministry of Works. Date unknown.
Where is TVTA ??
Cover. ABC of Londons Transport. UK. 1948
Really? TVTA has moved to…
The Clash – London Calling.
Ah. Blimey, those fish and chips and a good old cup of Rosy Lee sure tasted good after 14 years in France!
Suffice to say, we’re back! And we’re looking forward to catching up with our dear vintage mates here in WordPress-land! Geography-tastic! See ya soon. Love ya!
BRITAINS SET N° 460, Scots Guards, circa 1933.
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