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| Author: Jem Southam
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Category: Book
List Price: $75.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 380868
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 156
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 12.8 x 11.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 1568985177
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.36423092
EAN: 9781568985176
ASIN: 1568985177
Publication Date: August 25, 2005
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Condition: Brand new book - May have a remainder mark.
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Product Description
Early in the morning, before breakfast and the beginning of the workday, photographer Jem Southam takes to the countryside of southwest England, visiting and revisiting the hills and dales of Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset. His lyrical photographs of these places, taken in series over several years, chart the subtle evolution of this picturesque countryside as it has been transformed by both natural processes and human intervention. Ostensibly topographic and descriptive, each achieves a greater power thanks to an allegorical language that draws on our collective imagination. Landscape Stories is the first comprehensive collection of Southam's work, drawn from three completed series: The Pond at Upton Pyne, The Red River, and Rockfalls, Rivermouths, and Ponds, along with several smaller groups of pictures from series still in the making. Southam's brief narratives about each site—together with essays by Gerry Badger and Andy Grundberg, which examine Southam's work from European and American perspectives, respectively—create a rich context for viewing these remarkable, large-format photographs.
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Stimulating June 14, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Southam's wonderful book of (mostly) large format images taken from multiple series has been one of the most stimulating of the medium I've yet come across. I think it was Fay Godwin (also from the UK) who first made me look at both the beauty and timelessness of the landscape and the detritus of habitation despoiling same. One can get too precious with the subjects considered worthy of an exposure. From the methods of the photographer as revealed herein, Southam is a painstaking master of the medium with a strong idea of what he's trying to convey. His images of rock falls and dew ponds are unquestionably beautiful and with great colour. But it's the "stories", the multiple approaches of aspect or over time that are most interesting here. With some thoughtful essays and excellent printing, this is a book worthy of consideration.
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