The British Landscape
by John Davies
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Author: John DaviesIntroduction: Jonathan Glancey
Designer: Smith
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-01
ISBN: 095468947X
Number of pages: 112
Publisher: Chris Boot
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Book Review: A Green and Pleasant Land
Summary: 5 Stars
John Davies deserves to be better known in the United States. Using a large format camera with impeccable skill, he works in a "topographic" tradition that is closer to Fenton and the Frith Studios than to the "new topographic" work of photographers like Lewis Baltz or Steven Shore. Perhaps the closest comparison in recent work is the Becher's "Industrial Landscapes", which is atypical for them.
I offer these comparisons only to encourage you to look at this book: John Davies' work is self-sufficient. His photographs are stunning for their detail and their complex compositions, but there is nothing affected about them. Davies seems to choose the lighting and viewpoint that best describe what he wants to photograph and for the most part that is the post-industrial urban landscape. He shows us the layers of development and redevelopment, the patterns that grow around factories and churches, the sinews of roads and railways that run through it all. There is nothing aloof or artful about these photographs. This is a human landscape, represented by a humanist. I highly recommend this book.
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