Author: Bruce Davidson
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Category : Documentary photography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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England/Scotland 1960 offers a visionary insight into the very heart of English and Scottish cultures. Reflecting a postwar era in which the revolutions of the 1960s had hardly yet filtered into the mainstream, Davidson's photographs reveal countries driven by difference--the extremes of city and country life, of the landed gentry and the common people--and lucidly portrays the mood of these times in personal and provocative imagery that is as fresh today as it was in that time.
Author: Bruce Davidson
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ISBN: 9783869304861
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In 1960, after an intense year photographing the notorious Brooklyn street gang The Jokers, Bruce Davidson decided to remove himself from the tension and depression of that work. He received an assignment to photograph Marilyn Monroe during the making of John Houston's The Misfits in the Nevada desert, and then travelled to London on commission for Queen magazine. Published by Jocelyn Stevens, Queen was devoted to British lifestyle and Davidson was charged, with no specific agenda, to spend a couple of months touring England and Scotland to create a visual portrait of the two countries. England / Scotland 1960 offers a poetic insight into the heart of English and Scottish cultures. Reflecting a postwar era in which the revolutions of the 1960s had not quite yet entered the mainstream, Davidson's photographs reveal societies driven by difference--the extremes of city and country life, of the landed gentry and the common people. Published for the first time in its entirety in 2005, this new edition has a larger ideal format chosen by Davidson initially for his book Black & White (2012), and now the standard size for his future publications with Steidl.
Author: Bruce Davidson
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ISBN: 9783869305530
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In 1960, after an intense year photographing a notorious Brooklyn street gang "The Jokers", Bruce Davidson decided to remove himself from the tension and depression of that work. He received an assignment to photograph Marilyn Monroe during the making of John Houston's The Misfits in the Nevada desert, and then travelled to London on commission for Queen magazine. Published by Jocelyn Stevens, Queen was devoted to British lifestyle and Davidson was charged, with no specific agenda, to spend a couple of months touring England and Scotland to create a visual portrait of the two countries. England / Scotland 1960 offers a poetic insight into the heart of English and Scottish cultures. Reflecting a post-warera in which the revolutions of the 1960s had not quite yet entered the mainstream, Davidson's photographs reveal societies driven by difference - the extremes of city and country life, of the landed gentry and the common people. Published for the first time in its entirety in 2005, this new edition has a larger ideal format chosen by Davidson initially for his Black & White (2012), and now the standard size for his future publications with Steidl.
Author: Bruce Davidson
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ISBN: 9780810949751
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Following the success of his series of grim photographs of the circus world and of the bleak lives of urban youth in Brooklyn, Bruce Davidson turned his lens to England and Scotland. For three months he traversed the country, recording both the sights of a disappearing life and the new realities of the welfare state, peace marchers, teddy boys, Room at the Top, Jimmy Porter and the red brick universities. The resulting series of photographs constitute a classic work of photography and a moving, evocative portrait of a bygone Britain. They were showcased along with Davidson's other photographic essays in a 1963 exhibition of Davidson's work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Author: Craig Richardson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351549790
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Craig Richardson here addresses key areas of cultural politics and identity in a way that not only illuminates the development of Scottish art, but teases out another strand of the plurality of developments which led to the success of artists throughout the UK in the 1990s. It is of the highest relevance whether one's perspective is that of the development of the Scottish art, British art or European art of this period. The book adds significantly to our knowledge of the art of this period in a way that will aid not only our historical understanding but our understanding of the dynamics of art practice today. Providing an analysis and including discussion (interviewing artists, curators and critics and accessing non-catalogued personal archives) towards a new chronology, Richardson here examines and proposes a sequence of precisely denoted 'exemplary' works which outlines a self-conscious definition of the interrogative term 'Scottish art.' Among the artists whose work is discussed are John Latham, Simon Starling, Alan Johnston, Roderick Buchanan, Glen Onwin, Christine Borland, William Johnstone, Joan Eardley, Alexander Moffat, Douglas Gordon, Alan Smith, Graeme Fagen, Ross Sinclair and many others. The discussion culminates in a critically original demonstration of the scope for further research and practice within the subject, facilitating national cultural debate on the character of Scottish-national visual art.
Author: Great Britain. General Register Office
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Author: Donald L. Foley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520022485
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Author: Michael Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192528394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Scotland's Populations is a coherent and comprehensive description and analysis of the most recent 170 years of Scottish population history. With its coverage of both national and local themes, set in the context of changes in Scottish economy and society, this study is an essential and definitive source for anyone teaching or writing on modern Scottish history, sociology, or geography. Michael Anderson explores subjects such as population growth and decline, rural settlement and depopulation, and migration and emigration. It sets current and recent population changes in their long-term context, exploring how the legacies of past demographic change have combined with a history of weak industrial investment, employment insecurity, deprivation, and poor living conditions to produce the population profiles and changes of Scotland today. While focussing on Scottish data, Anderson engages in a rigorous treatment of comparisons of Scotland with its neighbours in the British Isles and elsewhere in Europe, which ensures that this is more than a one-country study.
Author: Great Britain. Central Statistical Office
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
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Each no. contains statistics for each preceding 15 years.
Author: Greg Thomas
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1789624444
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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This book considers the relationship between English and Scottish poets and the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s-1970s, focusing on the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Edwin Morgan, Dom Sylvester Houédard and Bob Cobbing. It will be a vital resource for students and scholars of modernism, intermedia art and British literature.
