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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Postcard collectors on the Isle of Wight will be familiar with the names of several photographers and producers of postcards; the names Beken Debenham and Broderick come to mind for example but a name always near the top of the list will be that of William R. Hogg. This book celebrates Hogg’s work by reproducing over a hundred of his photographs in large format and in the highest possible detail to a degree unavailable until now. Without exception they have all been produced from Hogg’s original glass negatives; there are no photographs of photographs and no copies of postcards. With the aid of computers we have been able to revisit the glass negatives that Hogg used to publish his postcards and produce prints of the highest quality. Mr Hogg would be pleased and proud to see his photographs published today as indeed he should be. His work was of the highest standard technically and aesthetically and it deserves to live on. The authors are equally pleased and proud to have been able to have saved Mr Hogg’s negatives from either a life on dusty shelves where they would no doubt remain unseen or even worse from destruction. We feel privileged to have been able to breathe a new life into Mr Hogg’s photographs and to present them to a new audience. (MP)