History is made at night

Some great images of 1980s North East (among other places) in the Chris Killip retrospective at the Photographers Gallery There's quite ...

'Seaside: Photographed' at Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate is a fine exhibition that seeks to ' examine the relationshi...

The working class style tribes of  the 1980s have been nicely recreated in Shane Meadows'  This is England films/TV series. But some of...

Rita Tushingham and Michael York in Smashing Time (1967) 'Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee, Wild nights should be ...

This great photograph of a young woman with her cassette recorder was taken in London in 1975 by US photographer Al Vandenberg. It fea...

' Punk's Dead' is a book of photographs by Simon Barker (Six), with an exhibition of some of the photos at Divus Temporary, 4 ...

247TopCat has done a great service to social and cultural history by putting some old 1980s photos on youtube, including this series take...

And in a wild and sudden dance We mocked at Time and Fate and Chance And swept out of the wattled hall And came to where the dewdrops fall A...

Looking forward to this on Thursday, the launch of an exhibition of photographs by Georgina Cook ( Drumz of the South ) at the LAVA Gallery...

The ballroom in the Lee Plaza Hotel , Detroit, from the excellent Ruins of Detroit by Yves Marchard and Romain Meffre. Interesting article...

'The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancin...

Earlier this year I went to the Eadweard Muybridge photography exhibition at Tate Britain. Of particular interest to me are his studies of d...

"When [...] the world of clear and articulate objects is abolished, our perceptual being, cut off from its world, evolves a spatiality ...

All I need in this creation Is 3 months work, 9 vacation Tell the boss, any old time The daytime is his, but the nighttime's mine Photo:...

Chapter 3 of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is entitled 'The Night Shadows' and opens with reflections on night, ...

In 1933, the photographer Brassaï (real name Gyula Halász, 1899–1984) published Paris de Nuit (Paris by Night), a remarkable photographic ...

Photographer Chris Steele-Perkins has a new book out, England my England , featuring 40 years of his documentary photography, with an exhib...

I like the places where the night does not mean an end where smiles break free and surprise is your friend and dancing goes on in the kitche...