Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

   
Edwin Smith (born Edwin George Herbert Smith) was an English photographer best known for his distinctive vignettes of English gardens, landscapes, and architecture. In 1935 he became a freelance photographer, working as a fashion photographer for Vogue for a short time. However, Smith concentrated his artistic efforts on subjects such as the mining community of Ashington in Northumberland, the docks of Newcastle, and circuses and fairgrounds around London. 
 
In 1954, Smith married artist and writer Olive Cook, whom he authored or contributed to numerous books during his lifetime. A tireless promoter of Smith’s work, Cook left her husband’s archive of 60,000 negatives to the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Robert Elwall Photographs Collection in 2002.
 
Take a look at Smith’s stunning photography through these 28 gorgeous black-and-white pictures below: 
 
Kentish Town station, London

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
Gateshead

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
Herring girls gutting fish on the quayside, North Shields

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
35 Hallam’s Lane, Chilwell near Nottingham

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
Church Farm Approved School, East Barnet, London

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
Southend-on-Sea, Essex

 

 
Palace Pier, Brighton

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
Central markets, West Smithfield, London

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
Clothes line in Glencaple, Scotland

 

 
Dumbiedykes from Salisbury Crags

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
Fragment of the colossal statue of Constantine the Great, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
Night street cleaning near St Paul’s Cathedral, London

 

 
‘Ideal’ fish & chip shop, London

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
Roofscape, Whitby, North Yorkshire

 

 
Back-street garden, Camden Town, London

 

 
Tulip staircase, Queens House, Greenwich, London

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
The colonnade, St Peter’s Square, Rome

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
Campo San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

 

 
Villa Garzoni Collodi, Tuscany

 

 
St Lawrence Didmarton, Gloucestershire

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
Farm in the mountains between Auletta and Potenza, Italy

 

 
Two boys on a doorstep, Kilkenny, Ireland

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
St Columba’s Wells, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
Skandia cinema, Stockholm

 

 
Lyne Church Peebles, Scotland

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
Bodnant Garden, Conwy, Wales

 

 
Pincio gardens overlooking Rome

 

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith

 
View from the Palazzo dello Sport, Rome