Eirini Lachana https://eirinilachana.com/ 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 Eirini Lachana https://eirinilachana.com/ 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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]]> Black Betty – meaning and origin https://eirinilachana.com/black-betty-meaning-and-origin/ Sat, 01 Feb 2020 19:38:25 +0000 https://eirinilachana.com/?p=1417 “Black Betty”  is a 20th-century African-American work song often credited to Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter as the author, though the earliest recordings are not by him. The song was first recorded in the field by US musicologists John and Alan Lomax in December 1933, performed a cappella by the convict James “Iron Head” Baker and […]

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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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]]> Placebo – Buttle for the sun https://eirinilachana.com/placebo-buttle-for-the-sun/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 19:20:16 +0000 https://eirinilachana.com/?p=1391 Just learned that Placebo ( my favorite band) are coming to Athens, in June, for the Rock Wave Festival. So, today’s music belongs to them.. This is the cover art for Battle for the Sun. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the record label or the graphic artist(s). Battle for the Sun is […]

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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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