Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

   
Edwin Smith (born Edwin George Herbert Smith) was an English photographer best known for his distinctive vignettes of English gardens, landscapes, and architecture. In 1935 he became a freelance photographer, working as a fashion photographer for Vogue for a short time. However, Smith concentrated his artistic efforts on subjects such as the mining community of Ashington in Northumberland, the docks of Newcastle, and circuses and fairgrounds around London. 
 
In 1954, Smith married artist and writer Olive Cook, whom he authored or contributed to numerous books during his lifetime. A tireless promoter of Smith’s work, Cook left her husband’s archive of 60,000 negatives to the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Robert Elwall Photographs Collection in 2002.
 
Take a look at Smith’s stunning photography through these 28 gorgeous black-and-white pictures below: 
 
Kentish Town station, London

 

Gateshead

 

Herring girls gutting fish on the quayside, North Shields

 

35 Hallam’s Lane, Chilwell near Nottingham

 

Church Farm Approved School, East Barnet, London

 

Southend-on-Sea, Essex

 

Palace Pier, Brighton

 

Central markets, West Smithfield, London

 

Clothes line in Glencaple, Scotland

 

Dumbiedykes from Salisbury Crags

 

Fragment of the colossal statue of Constantine the Great, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome

 

Night street cleaning near St Paul’s Cathedral, London

 

‘Ideal’ fish & chip shop, London

 

Roofscape, Whitby, North Yorkshire

 

Back-street garden, Camden Town, London

 

Tulip staircase, Queens House, Greenwich, London

 

The colonnade, St Peter’s Square, Rome

 

Campo San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

 

Villa Garzoni Collodi, Tuscany

 

St Lawrence Didmarton, Gloucestershire

 

Farm in the mountains between Auletta and Potenza, Italy

 

Two boys on a doorstep, Kilkenny, Ireland

 

St Columba’s Wells, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

 

Skandia cinema, Stockholm

 

Lyne Church Peebles, Scotland

 

Bodnant Garden, Conwy, Wales

 

Pincio gardens overlooking Rome

 

View from the Palazzo dello Sport, Rome