Echoes
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.74 (956 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1904563112 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Echoes" according to londonreader21. Every now and then someone is described, to their face, as brave. Habitually the compliment comes after success has been pulled from a venture with more than a small amount of risk hanging in the balance from its outset; and the speaker is pretty much always someone who would have weighed up the risk before steering well clear of such a potentially reckless path. To such people the comforts of home, or career, are not things to be risked lightly or in a potentially foolhardy manner.Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins is best know
A year in the life of photographer Chris Steele-Perkins, and a vast departure from his usual striking images of Africa and Afghanistan: now he gives us misting glimpses of 2001, from the Surrey hills to New York; shots of family, home and his life that year. The echo has a nostalgie de la boue that history cannot convey; Proust was a master of the reverberating sounds of the past, ill-defined and resonant. Here are the Surrey hills, New York, Japan, family, Africa, home, solipsistic aide-memoires he has arranged in a chronology that combine to make, for him, a Pandora's box of his recollections of that year. Photographers create in an instant an image that is indelible - until the print fades. Memory, wilful and indiscriminate, cannot compete. They are not his normal milieu, the stunning images of Africa and further abroad for which he is renowned. Chris Steele-Perkins has selected here, from the fragments of a working photographer's life and the archive of a single year - 2001, and the new millenium - images that unashamedly evoke his memories of that year, sentimental, odd, striking and intensely personal. After all, photographers
He graduated with honours in psychology at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1967-70) while working as a photographer and picture editor for the student newspaper. . Chris Steele-Perkins, was born in 1947 and moved from Rangoon to London with his family in 1949
About the Author Chris Steele-Perkins, was born in 1947 and moved from Rangoon to London with his family in 1949. He graduated with honours in psychology at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1967-70) while working as a photographer and picture editor for the student newspaper.