Edinburgh: An Architectural Portrait : Photography by James Reid Hardback
by James Reid
Hardback
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Edinburgh: An Architectural Portrait featuresan inspiring portfolio of imagery created over a ten-year period by thephotographer and visual artist James Reid.
Documenting the City of Edinburghusing digital, analogue and polaroid formats, the book captures the city’s mainconservation areas, with an emphasis on key architects, listed buildings anddistinct aspects of the cityscape. Presented as a beautiful collection ofblack-and-white images, along with a handful of colour works, the book’sdigital images are a mixture of full-frame capture and large-scale compositepieces, along with a selection of 35mm analogue single-frame photography.
Theseinclude panoramic views as well as more intimate perspectives, made possible byReid’s unique access to the city’s various buildings and structures of note. The book also features essays by fiveestablished Edinburgh-based artists – Aly Gordon (painter), Bruce Hare(artist and architect), Marianne Magnin (artist and curator), Merlin Ramos(painter) and Henry Stevens (artist and architect) – each ofwhom offers a personally informed response to the city and how itsarchitecture, art and history inform, influence and impact on them. The resulting publication is a uniquevisual mapping of the city’s most architecturally significant areas that willappeal to not only architects, artists and academics, but also residence of andvisitors to one of the world’s most architecturally rich capitals of culture.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, Black and white illustrations
- Publisher:Black Dog Press
- Publication Date:20/09/2022
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- ISBN:9781912165452
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, Black and white illustrations
- Publisher:Black Dog Press
- Publication Date:20/09/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781912165452
