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Vintage disaster photographs From Quirky PrintsAn initial reaction may be, that photographing disasters of long ago is a somewhat inappropriate area of vintage photography to research and source! However, there are disasters that are truly catastrophic and lead to loss of life and there are disasters that are on a much smaller scale and simply capture unusual and dramatic circumstances and events. Vintage disaster photographs often focused on the latter category and revealed scenes of generations from years gone by, getting to grips with forces of nature, such as floods. When the team at Quirky Prints set about researching and finding vintage photographs for their website, their hunt for old images took them to hundreds of antique shops, collectors’ fairs, vintage photograph dealers and specialists around the country. The resulting collection is literally thousands of hand-picked vintage photographs, on all manner of topics, including landscapes, people, shops, far-flung civilizations and transport from years ago. And among the numerous old black and white photographs that were collected, was some arresting and intriguing Vintage disaster photographs. Within the DISASTERS category on their website, Quirky Prints offers a selection of these unique vintage photographs. There are motorcyclists sitting knee-deep in water, as their bike is refuelled, freight trains that have slithered off their tracks, horse-drawn carriages splashing through waist-high floods and schoolchildren wading home from their waterlogged schools. All are captured in evocative sepia or black and white photographic detail. This collection of intriguing and forgotten, Vintage disaster photographs, makes stunning framed pictures. They become unique artworks, which can be hung in our homes, or bought as original and imaginative gifts for friends. No matter that we know nothing of the people or places in these old photographs. They are moments frozen in time. Pictures with their unusual stories to tell. And they have as much meaning and resonance with us today, as they had for those involved in creating the vintage photograph all those years ago. The original vintage photographs are all reproduced on finest grade, heavyweight art paper, to preserve all the fine detail and quality of the image. They are then enlarged and presented in contemporary metal frames, which have been carefully chosen both to improve the images and to complement any style of home décor. For anyone who is completely uninspired and bored with the same prints offered for sale in the high street – those thousands of similar pictures that appear in thousands of homes across the UK - Quirky Prints offers something new, some different. Something Quirky in fact! There are thirty-two other categories to choose from on the Quirky Prints website - from Agriculture to World War II – with thousands of images taken from original vintage photographs. Each of the old black and white photographs has been carefully restored to remove any damage, but preserve the originality of the image. Others have been painstakingly hand coloured or had their original colours restored. The result is a remarkable visual time capsule of years gone by. Within the collection of Vintage disaster photographs on the Quirky Prints website, we can celebrate the ‘Dunkirk spirit’ that was evident in spades, as generations from times gone by coped with the forces of nature and day-to-day disasters!
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