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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Hailed by the poet and architectural historian Sir John Betjeman as “a genius at photography” Edwin Smith (1912-1971) was one of Britain’s foremost photographers. At the time of his death he was widely regarded as without peer in his sensitive renditions of historical architecture and his empathetic evocations of place. The recurrent themes of Smith’s work a concern for the fragility of the environment; an acute appreciation of the need to combat cultural standardization by safeguarding regional diversity; and a conviction that architecture should be rooted in time and place are as pressing today as when Smith first framed them in his elegant compositions. Richly illustrated and engagingly written by a leading expert on architectural and topographical photography Evocations of Place: The Photography of Edwin Smith is the first major study of Smith’s work for over twenty years and the first book to put his work into its photographic and cultural context. Featuring many rarely seen images and drawing on previously unpublished correspondence Concations of Place will appeal to anyone smarested in architecture landscape photography and cultural history generally (MP)