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, LondonGatesheadHerring girls gutting fish on the quayside, North Shields35 Hallam’s Lane, Chilwell near NottinghamChurch Farm Approved School, East Barnet, LondonSouthend-on-Sea, EssexPalace Pier, BrightonCentral markets, West Smithfield, LondonClothes line in Glencaple, ScotlandDumbiedykes from Salisbury CragsFragment of the colossal statue of Constantine the Great, Palazzo dei Conservatori, RomeNight street cleaning near St Paul’s Cathedral, London‘Ideal’ fish & chip shop, LondonRoofscape, Whitby, North YorkshireBack-street garden, Camden Town, LondonTulip staircase, Queens House, Greenwich, LondonThe colonnade, St Peter’s Square, RomeCampo San Giorgio Maggiore, VeniceVilla Garzoni Collodi, TuscanySt Lawrence Didmarton, GloucestershireFarm in the mountains between Auletta and Potenza, ItalyTwo boys on a doorstep, Kilkenny, IrelandSt Columba’s Wells, Londonderry, Northern IrelandSkandia cinema, StockholmLyne Church Peebles, ScotlandBodnant Garden, Conwy, WalesPincio gardens overlooking RomeView from the Palazzo dello Sport, Rome
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