| Living in Wales Contributor(s): Hurn, David (Author), Jones, Anthony (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1854113399 ISBN-13: 9781854113399 Publisher: Seren Books OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2003 Annotation: This collection of 100 duotone portraits of the people who shape contemporary Wales contains the responses each subject had to a set of short questions about the notion of Welshness. Political devolution, a new economy, and the resurgence of the Welsh language are among several factors discussed by authors, artists, historians, and social commentators. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Photography | History |
| Dewey: 779.2 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 9.1" W x 9.78" (1.92 lbs) 140 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Wales is a country and society changing perhaps more than most. Political devolution, a new economy, the resurgence of the Welsh language are among several factors which authors, artists, historians and social commentators are currently addressing. Magnum photographer David Hurn adds his particular record of change in a more oblique -- though nonetheless telling - way than most. Here are duotone portraits of a hundred of the people who shape contemporary Wales, who have, in Hurn's words 'enriched my life and that of Wales'. Living in Wales is an album of famous figures and distinguished practitioners from the fields of science, business, the arts, sport, the law, health, media, politics and religion, from Jan Morris, Antony Freud and John Harvey Jones to Bernard Knight, Dafydd Wigley and Colin Jackson. In between are photographs of the 'ordinary' people who also 'enrich the life of Wales': ice cream makers, publicans, chimney sweeps and waitresses. The subject of each portrait answers the same short set of questions, and in doing so makes this book a multifaceted portrait of Wales itself.All the photographs are shot in Hurn's characteristic style, the lens lingering on the physicality of the person but also diverted by a telling prop into the possibilities of narrative. If Wales is the unseen subject of this collection, the printed images show a photographer in inspirational form with the individuals who make up the country. |