Blog: After Midnight - Nightclub photographs from the 50s and 60s

[David Ford]

Members may be interested in an article that has just been published on nightclub photographers from the 50s and 60s. I would be interested in making contact with others who have an interest in the 'snappers' who worked in pubs and clubs.

The link is here:  After Midnight: Nightclub Photographs from the ‘50s and ‘60s – David Ford – Porridge (porridgemagazine.com)

Image: David Ford

[Noorie]

Thank you for the link! One thing that I immediately notice is just how ‘old’ some of those chaps look! I’m sure they were late-twenties only; but appear 54! As a student photographer in the mid-eighties; I was a nightclub photographer; but by then I was shooting Polaroids for the guests; and film for the clubs promotion. Circa 2001; I was in Cannes and they still had photographers roaming tables shooting nostalgic black and white paparazzi photos which they were selling. I’d like to see the ‘Ghost Dance’ pics from Cardiff; I’m off to Google those…