Spot on Brian. A lot of what's photographed these days will be there a long long time yet and when they have gone, there's a lorry load of books with photos of them. That can't be said of finding gems, many that in fact still remain unseen but I won't be giving up as easy as some on unearthing them whilst those that can still appreciate having lived like that are still alive.
Every man and his dog are photographing Liverpool now, even tourists and kids, you see it all the time. However, from the late 1800s even up to the 1980s when I started, you could be out for days and not see anybody else doing it, in fact people would look at you funny wondering what you were photographing and why.
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Thank god for the internet, forums and flickr and those great 50s, 60s and 70s local photographers of ours whose work we can now see.
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