L’immagine è per gentile concessione di Dublino_archive1 https://www.instagram.com/dublin_archive1?igsh=zg1vmnd5ejl0zxfp
Lo ricordo da bambino ma non ho mai capito quanto oscuro e "Blocco orientale" Il centro città era.
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di DrCatholicGuilt
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Yes
The building is [still there](https://maps.app.goo.gl/u4dtskPfUJxoq2HK8?g_st=ac). I suspect the film technology contributes to the drab look, even the trees look grey here
Not really but I remember the nuns you don’t see them much either now a days
Used to be a cinema back in the day, the same as the bank of ireland.
Where penny’s that used to be a big dance hall with the Dublin Opera house behind it.
Carlton used to be a big cinema as well.
Oconnel street used to be a place to visit not just to travel through.
It is still there, it’s a Burger King.
Am I mistaken or was it at one point a McDonalds? I know there is one just further along now, but I remember there being a arched window in McDonalds on O’Connell street at some point.
I’ve eaten burgers in that mouth. The shop, not the nun.
There’s a new one just up the street past the GPO
Lad with the un~necessary brolly/suspicious attache~case/desperate comb-over most likely darting across from Dail Eireann to Bank of Ireland on spurious “Ansbacher” business on behalf of certain un~named individuals without bank~accounts… n’est-ce-pas..?
edit: looks like he slept in his suit…
You don’t realise it looked like that because it didn’t look like that! It’s a bad photo taken on a cheap Instamatic probably bought in the early ’80s, using bog-standard consumer film that was geared for sunny holiday snaps. Those cameras couldn’t handle diffuse light or cloudy days, so everything ends up looking grey, dull, and lifeless. They relied on the film being fairly forgiving, but when you add the diffuse light we get here it often just looked dull — the film isn’t capable of making up for the lack of contrast it’s getting through the lens, so that’s what you get. The sky’s not even that overcast, it’s just badly captured. If you took the exact same shot today on a halfway decent phone, you’d get way more colour, contrast, depth and atmosphere.
It’s also why photographers in that era captured amazing photos compared to the average person’s snaps. They had way better equipment, understood what they were doing and used better film.
If you look at ‘snaps’ from that era they often either look dull or have that slight orange tinge to them.