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La Bodleian Library, emblema fonamental i pedra cabdal de la universitat d'Oxford, fou creada el s. XV per Thomas Bodley, a partir de les restes de les coleccions reunides pel duc Humphrey. Amb els segles, el resultat és una de les biblioteques més importants i prestigioses del món.
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The Bodleian Library is one of the most impressive institutions and buildings in Oxford University. Founded by Thomas Bodley in the XVI Century, by now it's one of the most impressive and prestigious libraries in the World.
Retro. This was a hard one, all week I have sat and thought about the word Retro, nothing came to mind. After an outing today to Oxford City Centre I found my Retro. Old Buildings. Oxford is full of them. Here is a photo of one of the side of the Bodleian Library.
Better late than never, but for some reason I've been a bit busy today........ here's a Christmas shot taken a couple of days ago at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
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The tower of the Five Orders, the main entrance to The Bodleian. So called as it displays in ascending order columns of each of the five orders of classical architecture: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite.
Built 1613-19.
Oxford, England
Congratulations to Wilkinson Eyre Architects (and the University of Oxford) for winning an Oxford Preservation Plaque at this weeks OPT Environmental Awards for their re-imagining of the Weston Library.
It was one of those buildings that was easy to walk past without noticing, now it's transformed the end of Broad Street. Worth popping inside for the excellent cafe and public exhibition space.
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From the Wilkinson Eyre Architects Statement : "The existing building is in one of the most historically sensitive parts of the city, and is part of a series of buildings forming one of the most memorable urban ‘set pieces’ in the United Kingdom. The transformation of the New Bodleian into an exciting and dynamic resource for the university and the general public will serve to better integrate the building into this wider complex and encourage greater access and engagement."
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From a photography workshop at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, including the opportunity to photograph from locations not normally open to the public, not to photographers. My thanks to the Bodleian for organising this.
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
"QUOD FELICITER VORTAT ACADEMICI OXONIENSIS BIBLIOTHECAM HANC VOBIS REIPUBLICAEQUE LITERATORUM T(HOMAS). B(ODLEY). P(OSUIT)."
This is a resurrection of an old photo of the Radcliffe Camera but in B&W. It was taken from St Mary the Virgin's tower to get an aerial perspective.
The Radcliffe Camera was designed by James Gibbs in the English Palladian style and built in 1737–1749 to house the Radcliffe Science Library. It is the earliest example in England of a circular library.
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Old Schools Quadrangle, Bodleian Library
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The interior of the Wilkinson Eyre designed Weston Library at the end of Broad St in Oxford.
If you don't know the name Wilkinson Eyre then take a look at this set of photos of their architecture and you'll probably recognise a few other of their projects : www.flickr.com/darrellg/albums/72157660181832339
From the Wilkinson Eyre Architects Statement : "The existing building is in one of the most historically sensitive parts of the city, and is part of a series of buildings forming one of the most memorable urban ‘set pieces’ in the United Kingdom. The transformation of the New Bodleian into an exciting and dynamic resource for the university and the general public will serve to better integrate the building into this wider complex and encourage greater access and engagement."
If you have any photos of this building maybe you'd like to join the 'Oxfords Contemporary Architecture' group I started : www.flickr.com/groups/2633828@N21/
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From a photography workshop at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, including the opportunity to photograph from locations not normally open to the public, not to photographers. My thanks to the Bodleian for organising this.
A fisheye shot from my first venture inside the recently opened Wilkinson Eyre designed Weston Library. This refurbished building at the end of Broad Street in Oxford used to be such a nondescript building so the transformation is quite considerable. The public can now enter to visit a cafe, a bookshop and a small (but well worth a visit) Special Exhibition space.
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From the Wilkinson Eyre Architects Statement : "The existing building is in one of the most historically sensitive parts of the city, and is part of a series of buildings forming one of the most memorable urban ‘set pieces’ in the United Kingdom. The transformation of the New Bodleian into an exciting and dynamic resource for the university and the general public will serve to better integrate the building into this wider complex and encourage greater access and engagement."
For those interested, you can read the whole statement here : www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/65884/W...
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After over thirty years in Oxford I finally got into the Radcliffe Camera back in August. A slight lie as I had actually been inside a few years ago on a guided tour but that doesn't count as cameras weren't allowed...... This time round it was a event specifically for photographers and we were encouraged to bring our cameras and take as many photos as we liked.
Very glad I took my 8mm fisheye with me as it's probably the best way to capture the essence of the main reading rooms domed ceiling.
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From Wikipedia, "The Radcliffe Camera (colloquially known as the "Rad Cam" or "The Camera"; from Latin camera, meaning 'room') is a building of the University of Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs in a Baroque style and built in 1737–49 to house the Radcliffe Science Library. It is sited to the south of the Old Bodleian, north of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, and between Brasenose College to the west and All Souls College to the east. The Radcliffe Camera's circularity, its position in the heart of Oxford, and its separation from other buildings make it the focal point of the University of Oxford, and as such it is almost always included in shorthand visual representations of the university. The Radcliffe Camera is not open to the public."
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I thought I'd try a timeless sepia conversion of this shot of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford. Converting to mono has made it easier to even up the exposure differences between the highlights and the shadows, in colour it's much harder to do due to the noise hidden in the shadows.
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From a photography workshop at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, including the opportunity to photograph from locations not normally open to the public, not to photographers. My thanks to the Bodleian for organising this.
La bibliothèque bodléienne (anglais : Bodleian Library), officiellement bibliothèque de Bodley (Bodley’s Library) est la plus prestigieuse des bibliothèques de l’université d'Oxford. Formellement établie en 1602 à partir de collections plus anciennes, elle tire son nom de Thomas Bodley, bibliothécaire de Merton College.
I don't often take photos whilst it's still actually snowing, I prefer for it to stop and then wait for a blue sky. This afternoon however I took the opportunity to take a series of Oxford landmark shots as I felt the snow added a bit of atmosphere.
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Longer days and shrinking work loads meant I left the office before dark for the first time in I-don't-know-how-long.
I could see the skies over Oxford light up from my office window so I got on my bike with my little Panasonic LX-7 and tried to get some shots in. Some of these are going to take some work to deal with the difficult lighting but here's one to kick things off.
The Radcliffe camera, part of the bodleian library at the University of Oxford. It's a beautiful building set in a square surrounded by other impressive architecture.
Radcliffe Camera in profile with All Souls in the background.
The Radcliffe Camera was designed by James Gibbs in the English Palladian style and built in 1737–1749 to house the Radcliffe Science Library. It is the earliest example in England of a circular library.
The College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed, of Oxford, was founded by Henry VI and Henry Chichele (fellow of New College and Archbishop of Canterbury), in 1438.
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Blackwell Hall at the Weston Library, Oxford
Taken on the Oxford Flickr First Friday photo walk, 1 March
Congratulations to Wilkinson Eyre Architects (and the University of Oxford) for winning an Oxford Preservation Plaque at this weeks OPT Environmental Awards for their re-imagining of the Weston Library.
It was one of those buildings that was easy to walk past without noticing, now it's transformed the end of Broad Street. Worth popping inside for the excellent cafe and public exhibition space.
Click here for more University of Oxford shots : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157629194588410
From the Wilkinson Eyre Architects Statement : "The existing building is in one of the most historically sensitive parts of the city, and is part of a series of buildings forming one of the most memorable urban ‘set pieces’ in the United Kingdom. The transformation of the New Bodleian into an exciting and dynamic resource for the university and the general public will serve to better integrate the building into this wider complex and encourage greater access and engagement."
If you have any photos of this building maybe you'd like to join the 'Oxfords Contemporary Architecture' group I started : www.flickr.com/groups/2633828@N21/
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.When I visited the city of Oxford (UK) the past summer, the Bodleian Libraries group (University of Oxford) was working to transform their buildings.One of them was covered with white plastic.
To make it more attractive one attached a huge banner on the facade, showing the alphabet..
Each letter was assigned to a great person or event from cultural or scientific life through the different periods of history..
- A clever idea!
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Bildtitel: WIE DIE ZEIT VERGEHT...
Als ich letzten Sommer die Stadt Oxford in England besuchte, wurde die Bodleian Bibliothek der Universität umstrukturiert.
Das gesamte Gebäude war mit Pastik abgedeckt .
Um die Fassade attraktiver zu gestalten, hatte man ein mehrere Meter langes Banner - mit den Buchstaben des Alphabets versehen- angebracht.
Jeder Buchstabe zeigte eine Persönlichkeit oder ein Ereignis des kulturellen oder wissenschaftlichen Lebens aus verschiedenen Epochen der Geschichte.
Eine clevere Idee!
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The third and last jigsaw puzzle completed on our Welsh holiday: this time a scene from a medieval French manuscript held in the Boldleian Library, Oxford. It shows the Battle of Hastings from the French perspective, and interestingly, depicts Harold receiving an arrow not through his eye, but in the centre of his forehead. This was another puzzle found in a Welsh charity shop.
Total piece count for 2018: 129,915
Puzzle number 170
I'd seen versions of this shot of the Radcliffe Camera through a window in St Marys Church before on contacts photostreams but when I came to shoot it myself I found it quite tricky to get right.
I had to massively overexposure to keep any detail of the window surround and then in Lightroom pull as much detail as I could back from the main subject itself. I thought this would be a better way of doing it as to pull detail out of the shadows would have introduced a lot of noise into these foreground areas.
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From Wikipedia : "From Wikipedia : "The Radcliffe Camera (Camera, meaning "room" in Latin; colloquially, "Rad Cam" or "The Camera") is a building of Oxford University, England, designed by James Gibbs in neo-classical style and built in 1737–1749 to house the Radcliffe Science Library. It is sited to the south of the Old Bodleian, north of St. Mary's Church, and between Brasenose College to the west and All Souls College to the east.
The Library's construction and maintenance was funded from the estate of John Radcliffe, a notable doctor, who left £40,000 upon his death in 1714. According to the terms of his will, construction only began in 1737, although the intervening period saw the complex purchase of the site. The exterior was complete in 1747 and the interior finished by 1748, although the Library's opening was delayed until 13 April 1749."
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The Radcliffe Camera, an iconic Palladian style library, is a building of Oxford University, England, designed by James Gibbs in neo-classical style and built in 1737-49 to house the Radcliffe Science Library. It is sited to the south of the Old Bodleian, north of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, and between Brasenose College to the west and All Souls College to the east. The Radcliffe Camera's circularity, its position in the heart of Oxford, and its separation from other buildings make it the focal point of the University of Oxford, and as such it is almost always included in shorthand visual representations of the university.
The Radcliffe Camera is an iconic Oxford landmark and a working library, part of the central Bodleian Library complex. It is linked to the Bodleian Old Library by the underground Gladstone Link. The Radcliffe Camera is home to the History Faculty Library (HFL).
From a photography workshop at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, including the opportunity to photograph from locations not normally open to the public, not to photographers. My thanks to the Bodleian for organising this.
The Schools Quadrangle. The West range, built 1610-12.The other three ranges were built 1613-24, John Akroyd and John and Michael Bently, being master-masons. Built originally in Headington freestone. Extensive restorations made in 1878-85 in Clipsham stone to the upper storey, pinnacles and the whole tower. Further refacing of the interior, of the quadrangle on the South made in 1949. The columns on each level represent the five orders of classical architecture: (from bottom) Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite.
Part of the Bodleian Library the main research library of the University of Oxford. All the buildings in Radcliffe Square form a group of the highest importance being the centre of the University of Oxford.
Whilst correcting the verticals in this shot of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford I think I may have overcompensated when stretching the height. It adds a bit of extra grandeur to the architecture but I'm not really sure that's entirely necessary......
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This archway forms an axis that starts at the Clarendon Building, passes through the Old Schools Quad and then on into the Radcliffe Square. If the Radcliffe Camera was open to the public then you would pass straight through that and into St Marys Church........
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From Wikipedia : "Until the early 18th century the printing presses of the Oxford University Press (OUP) were in the basement of the Sheldonian Theatre. This meant that the compositors could not work when the Theatre was in use for ceremonies. The University therefore commissioned a new building to house the OUP.
Nicholas Hawksmoor produced a neoclassical design, construction started in 1711 and it was completed in 1715. The building was funded largely from the proceeds of the commercially successful History of the Great Rebellion by the 1st Earl of Clarendon, whose legacy later paid for the building of the Clarendon Laboratory in Oxford as well.
In the 1820s the OUP moved to new premises in Walton Street, after which the University used the Clarendon Building for administrative purposes. In 1975 the building was transferred to the Bodleian Library, for which it now provides office and meeting space for senior members of staff."
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