Sixty Years in Sixty Minutes: A Lifetime of Leica Photographs

By Don Jacklin

This is a portfolio of a mixed bag of events, and objects that have caught my eye and been recorded as of interest to me. Ilford’s old slogan “For Faces and Places,” was very apt. It could take just sixty minutes to look through the book or you may want to look through sixty times who knows? It spans a sixty-year period of life which has passed by my lens. I have selected the most memorable ones, which are likely to mean more to viewers beyond the family circle so to speak. Photography can be so, so personal I have found. Many of these images can never be repeated. Some will stand the test of time better than others. I would like to think that British Amateur Photojournalism never dies and ordinary people such as myself can and will make the effort to continue recording for posterity. In black and white please, it has for me and many enthusiasts alike, an archaic charm that no other art form can beat.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Apr 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781665588423

Don Jacklin

Born in May 1940 to the crashing accompanyment of Nazi bombers during their Blitz on Sheffield steel City, I survived and was brought up by loving parents and grandparents who formed my character and shaped my life. Luckily I attended the Rowlinson Secondary Technical School in it’s heyday with a leaning towards engineering: alas no more as it sank into the pool of grey comprehensive system education. My regular full time occupation was as a professional design engineer of heating and building services based in North England and travelling to numerous sites in the course of my career. For many of my active years I was a member of the Phoenix Mountaineering Club including a term as President and underwent many treks and climbs across the Himalaya. I have also travelled to seek out wild landscapes in Patagonia, Australia, Khirgistan, the U.S.A. India and Tibet. I have been a long time member of Dronfield Camera Club, The Leica Society and the Photographic Association of Great Britain as photography has been a big part of my life. Since my teen years I have continually tried to catch photo glimpses of people and things I found interesting and it is good for me in my 80th. year to look back on these with fondness.

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Published by AuthorHouse 04/29/2021

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Contents

Foreword

Scooter girl, Cockington

The Welder

Two Country Gents

The Sheep Auction

Boston Market

Traction Engine

Coal delivery

Mr. Colin Hopcroft

Manvers Crossing

Fire!

Fire 2!

Mrs. Massey

Princess Anne

Winter Time

Joe Else

Barrel Organ Phil

Bus Wash

Country Boys

Church Carpenter

Time check

Goshawk

Whitby Morris Dancers

City Clopper

Tuck Shop Child

Bruges

Bruges Canal

Hard Won

Balloonist

The Slimming Lesson

Happy Golfer

Skye High

The Vulcan

Loose Leaf

Iced Glyders

Swiss Alps

HMS Warrior

Athens Fish Market

Cir Mhor

Sleeping Dog

Hobby Horse

Scafel

The Hoy Ferry

Island Hopper

Orkney Potter

Orkney Guns

Nemrut Dag

Endeavour

The Black Cuilin

Salford Keys

Demo at No.10 Downing Street

Kelp and Cuilin

Cave House

The Face of Beauty

The Ripley Bus

Reflections

Say Cheese!

Walton Surf

It’s a Yorkshire Thing

Pickering

Midland Station

Highland Cattle

Acureri Harbour

Sweetsales

Barcelona

Familia Segrada

Fountain

The only way is Up

Gardoms Edge

A Roman

Stourhead

Etal

Kayaker

The Critic

Venician Dog

Venice Lute

The Gondolier

The Baker

Crab Fisherman

A Swift Booting

Didcot

Dufton Pike

Blickling Hall

Eyam Village

Papplewick

Engine Crew

The Beach

Wynatts Pass

Cutlery Punk

Winter Gardens

Culzean Bombard

The Kelpies

Intruder

Coffee Shop Window

Bolsover Showman

The Speech

Christmas Turkeys

Technical Information

The date is 2019. This winter I checked through my assembly of Monochrome images which began in 1959 using my modest Leica 1 of pre-war vintage and recognised that it was a long sixty years ago. So the title of this book is "Sixty Years in Sixty minutes. Numbers and dates punctuate our lives and in this particular instance, it took me sixty minutes, just one hour, to gather a representative selection of Monochrome images which make up my life’s story in pursuit of Black and White print expression. Of course, I am hardly known in photo circles outside my habitat of South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire but like many of my camera friends, we have studied the works of past generations of the classic photographers whom we adored in various degrees and it has surely affected our styles. We all see and photograph our world differently and I make the point that this portfolio will be quite unlike any other production: no better, no worse but certainly different. As my learned colleagues point out, it is the differences in us that make photography interesting.

I have owned and enjoyed the use of many makes of camera and found them all to be fascinating instruments. They all have their foibles and it is hard to choose a favourite. Some are better suited to a task than others and if you have access to many models then pick the one that suits you best. I still think that cameras are secondary, the picture on the wall is the important end result that counts. All cameras these days are reliable and good enough to support 20x 16 exhibition prints. Technical skill should be taken for granted with the capture and processing. It is up to the individual to show his subject as an honest and genuine presentation without misleading manipulation. For me, Monochrome has that everlasting graphic appeal: the lack of colour seems to add curiosity and perhaps mystique of an abstract take on life itself. For those of us brought up in a world of early television, books and newspapers were also dominated by black and white pictures so there is added