Blog Archives - Eirini Lachana https://eirinilachana.com/c16-blog/ Eirini Lachana, photography Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:35:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://eirinilachana.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cropped-2-32x32.jpg Blog Archives - Eirini Lachana https://eirinilachana.com/c16-blog/ 32 32 The making of 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love” https://eirinilachana.com/the-making-of-im-not-in-love/ Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:35:18 +0000 https://eirinilachana.com/?p=1649 “I’m Not in Love” is a song by English group 10cc, written by band members Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman and  released in the UK in May 1975. Eric Stewart came up with the idea for the song after his wife, to whom he had been married for eight years at that point, asked him why he didn’t say […]

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]]> Henry Fox Talbot https://eirinilachana.com/henry-fox-talbot/ Wed, 29 Jan 2020 20:33:51 +0000 https://eirinilachana.com/?p=1396 “I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.” William Henry Fox Talbot, by John Moffat of Edinburgh, May 1864.   William Henry Fox Talbot (11 February 1800 – 17 September 1877) was an English scientist, inventor […]

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]]> Charles Nègre https://eirinilachana.com/charles-negre/ Wed, 22 Jan 2020 21:09:24 +0000 https://eirinilachana.com/?p=1376 Charles Nègre (9 May 1820 – 16 January 1880) was a pioneering photographer, born in Grasse, France. He studied under the painters Paul Delaroche, Ingres and Drolling before establishing his own studio at 21 Quai Bourbon on the Île Saint-Louis, Paris. Delaroche encouraged the use of photography as research for painting; Nègre started with the daguerreotype process before moving on to calotypes. His “Chimney-Sweeps Walking”, […]

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]]> Knocker-uppers / Before the alarm clocks https://eirinilachana.com/knocker-uppers-before-the-alarm-clocks/ Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:21:41 +0000 https://eirinilachana.com/?p=1284 A Knocker-upper, was a profession in Britain and Ireland that started during and lasted well into the Industrial Revolution, when alarm clocks were neither cheap nor reliable, and to as late as the beginning of the 1920s. A knocker-up’s job was to rouse sleeping people so they could get to work on time. The knocker-up used a baton or short, […]

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]]> Once upon a time with Charles Perrault https://eirinilachana.com/once-upon-a-time-with-charles-perrault/ Sun, 21 Jul 2019 06:18:49 +0000 https://eirinilachana.com/?p=1232 Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française and he laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale. Portrait (detail)of Charles Perrault by Philippe Lallemand, 1672 In 1695, when he was 67, Perrault lost his position as secretary and decided to […]

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