{"id":38484,"date":"2024-03-22T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T16:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=38484"},"modified":"2024-03-22T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T16:34:12","slug":"the-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2024\/03\/22\/the-va\/","title":{"rendered":"The V&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Theft central.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Dating from 1852, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> in west London houses what may be the greatest collection of stolen arts and crafts in the western hemisphere.  The English excuse this act of plunder as &#8216;Colonialism&#8217;.  I call it theft.  The colonies are now gone but the V&#038;A remains.<\/p>\n<p>Still, morals apart, there was always something of interest to be found there when these images were snapped in October, 1975.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/4678_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Oy!  Hands off!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/4695_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Cleaning ladies.  Perfectly coiffed and most charming.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/4697_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Workers&#8217; break.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/4706_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Snooze.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/4716_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>On guard.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/4717_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Tapestry.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/4720_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Looking down.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/4721_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Expert at work.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/4730_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Runner<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Nikon F, 28mm Vivitar, TriX, &#8216;scanned&#8217; with the Nikon D800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theft central. Dating from 1852, the Victoria and Albert Museum in west London houses what may be the greatest collection of stolen arts and crafts in the western hemisphere. The English excuse this act of plunder as &#8216;Colonialism&#8217;. I call it theft. The colonies are now gone but the V&#038;A remains. Still, morals apart, there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2024\/03\/22\/the-va\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The V&#038;A<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38487,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38484\/revisions\/38487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}