Journey Through the British Isles | 
 enlarge | Author: Harry Cory Wright
Creator: Adam Nicolson
Publisher: Merrell
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1296165
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 191
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.6
Dimensions (in): 15.1 x 12.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 1858943671
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.3641
EAN: 9781858943671
ASIN: 1858943671
Publication Date: September 30, 2007
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Book Description
In the tradition of the great journeys taken by such photographers as Fox Talbot, Fenton and Bourne, Harry Cory Wright set out, in March 2006, on a quest to capture the variety of natural landscapes that make up the British Isles using a large-format plate camera. Beginning in the fragile, frozen beauty of Unst in Shetland at the spring equinox, he travelled down through the Western Isles and mainland Scotland to Northumberland and further south through England and Wales. This stunning book documents Cory Wright's remarkable journey. Each photograph is infused with the unique spirit of its location - from vast, wild mountain ranges to verdant, dewy forests at sunrise, from windswept beaches in winter to fields bathed in late summer, early evening sun. It is a unique photographic record of a journey through some of the most breathtaking locations in the British Isles. Cory Wright's Gandolfi plate camera captures images of exquisite detail and intensity. This is a magnificently produced, large-format book that will appeal to anyone interested in landscape photography.
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Beautiful Landscape Photography July 25, 2008
There are some photographs that could only be photographs. Christopher Burkett's work is like that. But othere are obviously inspired by painting, and Harry Cory Wright's work is of that kind. These numersous medium-to-large photos chronicle a months-long journey Wright took around Great Britain and its offshore islands (not Ireland). He took photos of the sea, woods, cliffs, fields and hedgerows, a waterfall, a few human artifacts and a few children.
The color palette tends to the dark, although there is glorious sunlight shining through some photos. Wright likes dark green and brown and favors yellow-green highlights when the sun is in evidence. The pictures were taken with a large-format camera, but Wright is often going for a painterly level of detail. In fact he reminds me of the French realist painter Breton, known for the work "Song of the Lark."
This is not the candy-coated nature photography of Galen Rowell, but neither is it the unmanicured stuff of Thomas Struth. It is stylized but in a subtle way that does not detract from the appearance of realism.
A tribute to the landscapes of Great Britain February 9, 2008
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This is a glorious book filled with gorgeous, full-page color photographs of the various landscapes of Scotland, England and Wales. It is most definitely worth having.
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