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A collection of b&w photographs celebrating the British landscape, with accompanying text by novelist John Fowles.
127 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1985
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February 14, 2025
еще один фотоальбом с эссе Фаулза (хотя мне больше нравится думать о нем как об обильно иллюстрированном эссе Фаулза), тоже вполне раритет. даже самые банальные вещи о пейзажной фотографии, изрекаемые с его интонацией, звучат чарующе. это при том, что фотография в те времена не была еще цифровой и не делалась мобильными устройствами, учтите. тогда все было по-честному, и от этого любые рассуждения о фотографии приобретают флер серьезности. о нынешней мобилографии он и задумываться бы не стал, наверное.
а фотографии Фей Годуин чудесные - идеальные графические композиции, слава богу, что не цветные.
а фотографии Фей Годуин чудесные - идеальные графические композиции, слава богу, что не цветные.
July 12, 2023
I think this book is some of her best photography. She is a better landscape photographer than Ansel Adams to me.
Did you keep reading? Don’t forget we are talking about art here, and everybody has a different opinion of it, whatever it may be.
Adams made perfect prints from careful negatives with the best equipment in the world at the time. He deserves great credit for passing on everything he learned to the world. There is no denying his work is beautiful, and he does have a handful of images worthy of master works of art too. I do not see much emotional depth or complexity in his work. I really don’t see much meaning in many of them—just perfect and pretty.
Godwin, for me has more mystery and emotion in her work. She did not have the magnificent Yosemite and Pacific coast of California everybody recognizes to model for her, nor the depth of equipment or “The American Century” phenomenon behind her. Everybody likes photographs of celebrity people and things they know and it helped to be American in the 20th Century.
If literal, perfect representative art was the defining standard, galleries would be very dull indeed. Think of Adams as the painter John Constable and Godwin as his competitor J. M. W. Turner. I like Turner better and see more in his work than Constable. You may look at it the other way around. We did not even mention William Eggleston and Mark Rothko yet—go slow and work up to them.
Did you keep reading? Don’t forget we are talking about art here, and everybody has a different opinion of it, whatever it may be.
Adams made perfect prints from careful negatives with the best equipment in the world at the time. He deserves great credit for passing on everything he learned to the world. There is no denying his work is beautiful, and he does have a handful of images worthy of master works of art too. I do not see much emotional depth or complexity in his work. I really don’t see much meaning in many of them—just perfect and pretty.
Godwin, for me has more mystery and emotion in her work. She did not have the magnificent Yosemite and Pacific coast of California everybody recognizes to model for her, nor the depth of equipment or “The American Century” phenomenon behind her. Everybody likes photographs of celebrity people and things they know and it helped to be American in the 20th Century.
If literal, perfect representative art was the defining standard, galleries would be very dull indeed. Think of Adams as the painter John Constable and Godwin as his competitor J. M. W. Turner. I like Turner better and see more in his work than Constable. You may look at it the other way around. We did not even mention William Eggleston and Mark Rothko yet—go slow and work up to them.
July 12, 2014
Beautiful black and white landscapes
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