MICK-CATCHERS - 1979.
THE MICK CATCHERS - 1979:
The 'Mick - Catchers' - Brothers James and Gerrard Doran, aged 10 and 11, hang around the warehouses in Effingham Street. Bootle. A couple of orange boxes propped up on a stick - tied to a string and a handful of pigeon corn scattered beneath, would net the duo their birds, to then go off and sell them to other 'pigeon fanciers' or to wring their necks for cooking.
A few years on and the brothers would be interested in 'birds' of a different kind.
Translation - A 'Mick' is a Liverpudlian expression for a pigeon. Usually grotty and full of lice...
someone who 'Keeps Micks' is a pigeon-fancier.
META DATA:
DESCRIPTION:
STREET PORTRAIT OF 'MICK (PIGEON) CATCHERS', NEXT TO WAREHOUSES BY THE DOCKS, EFFINGHAM STREET, BOOTLE. 1978.
PHOTOGRAPHER / CREATOR:
Photographer: WILLIAM ROBERT DOLCE (Bill).
Age: 28.
Bootle resident: Bedford Road.
DATE: 1978.
COPYRIGHT:
Copyright of the photograph belongs to ©WILLIAM DOLCE / ART IN ACTION. Permission to reproduce the photograph must be obtained from WILLIAM DOLCE / ART IN ACTION.
LOCATION:
Effingham Street, Bootle. Merseyside. England. UK.
Next to Regent Road. Exists today 2011.
TITLE / CAPTION:
Title: "Mick (Pigeon) Catchers" (William Dolce).
SUBJECTS:
Name: JAMES DORAN (left). ?????
Age: 10.
Bootle resident: 133 Hornby Road.
Name: GERRARD DORAN (right). ????
Age: 11.
Bootle resident: 133 Hornby Road.
CATEGORY: Exterior, lads, boys, pigeons, warehouses, environment, Effingham Street.
ARCHIVED: ART IN ACTION Centre.
Original source content:
35mm Black & white negative and print in the ART IN ACTION Centre.
Digitised content:
Image available for access as a 72 dpi Grayscale Jpeg file via the Web.
HISTORY:
The image was reproduced in the 'OPEN EYE' magazine, Issue 1 January 1979, printed on page 3. Size 9cm x 12.3cm, black and white. Published by the Open Eye Gallery Liverpool. Illustrating a review of the ARTS AND ACTION photographic Exhibition showning at the Open Eye Gallery, 90-92 Whitechapel, Liverpool, from 19th December 1978 till 13th January 1979.
Exhibited in the ARTS AND ACTION / ART IN ACTION Touring Exhibitions throughout the UK.
Exhibited in an ART IN ACTION Exhibition at the Bootle Photography Gallery.
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
Camera: 35mm Pentax K1000 camera body with a Pentax 50mm lens.
Film: Negative film, 35mm black and white.
RESOURCES AND FACILITIES:
All the camera equipment, films, chemicals, printing papers, darkroom, computer equipment and facilities were provided by ARTS AND ACTION / ART IN ACTION.
DIGITISATION:
Digital content creation: ART IN ACTION (in house).
Digitisation process:
On the 16th October 2009 a digital copy of a black and white print was taken with a Nikon D5000 DSLR on a copystand. The file was imported into the host I-Mac G5 Apple Macintosh computer, a digital copy was created using Adobe Photoshop CS4 software creating a 72 dpi Grayscale Jpeg file.
PHOTOGRAPHER'S COMMENTS:
The photograph was taken in the middle of the cobbled road.
"I used a basic Pentax K1000 with 50mm f2.8 lens, and a roll of black and white 35mm negative film. I hand processed the negative film, and I hand printed the original photographic prints, using the Groups darkroom equipment and facilities. Everything was provided FREE." William Dolce.
OTHER COMMENTS:
PHIL HUGHES said "I like this photograph as I can relate to this. I too kept pigeons for about ten years in the 1980's, and I knew what it was like when you could not afford to buy the baskets, spent many hours in our backyard knocking up boxes out of old bits of wood that's just how it was." 20th May 2010.
LINKS:
VERIFICATION:
The names of the per...... in the photograph, the photographer, date and location have been verified. Administrator.
COMPANY DETAILS:
ART IN ACTION Ltd.,
482 Stanley Road, Bootle. L20 5AF. Merseyside. England. UK.
Tel: (+44) 0151 933 5168.
artinactionbootle@btconnec
STREET PORTRAIT OF 'MICK (PIGEON) CATCHERS', NEXT TO WAREHOUSES BY THE DOCKS, EFFINGHAM STREET, BOOTLE. 1978.
PHOTOGRAPHER / CREATOR:
Photographer: WILLIAM ROBERT DOLCE (Bill).
Age: 28.
Bootle resident: Bedford Road.
DATE: 1978.
COPYRIGHT:
Copyright of the photograph belongs to ©WILLIAM DOLCE / ART IN ACTION. Permission to reproduce the photograph must be obtained from WILLIAM DOLCE / ART IN ACTION.
LOCATION:
Effingham Street, Bootle. Merseyside. England. UK.
Next to Regent Road. Exists today 2011.
TITLE / CAPTION:
Title: "Mick (Pigeon) Catchers" (William Dolce).
SUBJECTS:
Name: JAMES DORAN (left). ?????
Age: 10.
Bootle resident: 133 Hornby Road.
Name: GERRARD DORAN (right). ????
Age: 11.
Bootle resident: 133 Hornby Road.
CATEGORY: Exterior, lads, boys, pigeons, warehouses, environment, Effingham Street.
ARCHIVED: ART IN ACTION Centre.
Original source content:
35mm Black & white negative and print in the ART IN ACTION Centre.
Digitised content:
Image available for access as a 72 dpi Grayscale Jpeg file via the Web.
HISTORY:
The image was reproduced in the 'OPEN EYE' magazine, Issue 1 January 1979, printed on page 3. Size 9cm x 12.3cm, black and white. Published by the Open Eye Gallery Liverpool. Illustrating a review of the ARTS AND ACTION photographic Exhibition showning at the Open Eye Gallery, 90-92 Whitechapel, Liverpool, from 19th December 1978 till 13th January 1979.
Exhibited in the ARTS AND ACTION / ART IN ACTION Touring Exhibitions throughout the UK.
Exhibited in an ART IN ACTION Exhibition at the Bootle Photography Gallery.
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
Camera: 35mm Pentax K1000 camera body with a Pentax 50mm lens.
Film: Negative film, 35mm black and white.
RESOURCES AND FACILITIES:
All the camera equipment, films, chemicals, printing papers, darkroom, computer equipment and facilities were provided by ARTS AND ACTION / ART IN ACTION.
DIGITISATION:
Digital content creation: ART IN ACTION (in house).
Digitisation process:
On the 16th October 2009 a digital copy of a black and white print was taken with a Nikon D5000 DSLR on a copystand. The file was imported into the host I-Mac G5 Apple Macintosh computer, a digital copy was created using Adobe Photoshop CS4 software creating a 72 dpi Grayscale Jpeg file.
PHOTOGRAPHER'S COMMENTS:
The photograph was taken in the middle of the cobbled road.
"I used a basic Pentax K1000 with 50mm f2.8 lens, and a roll of black and white 35mm negative film. I hand processed the negative film, and I hand printed the original photographic prints, using the Groups darkroom equipment and facilities. Everything was provided FREE." William Dolce.
OTHER COMMENTS:
PHIL HUGHES said "I like this photograph as I can relate to this. I too kept pigeons for about ten years in the 1980's, and I knew what it was like when you could not afford to buy the baskets, spent many hours in our backyard knocking up boxes out of old bits of wood that's just how it was." 20th May 2010.
LINKS:
VERIFICATION:
The names of the per...... in the photograph, the photographer, date and location have been verified. Administrator.
COMPANY DETAILS:
ART IN ACTION Ltd.,
482 Stanley Road, Bootle. L20 5AF. Merseyside. England. UK.
Tel: (+44) 0151 933 5168.
artinactionbootle@btconnec
