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James Morris challenges the tourist cliches and looks at the impact of human presence and the layers history in the landscape. He reflects upon issues of identity, exploitation and regeneration; it is a land of beauty and of hardship where - in this post industrial, post rural economy - Tesco and tourism are now the great employers. These are the contrasting realities of the Welsh landscape - that seen by the many visitors and that experienced by most inhabitants. Morris moves between tourist hot spots and the terraces and back streets where the majority of people live. The latter are often hard bitten unpretty places, often built for reasons that no longer exist, no longer the world's largest producer of iron, coal, copper or slate, these are places that have lost their historic and heroic status, sometimes even their raison d'etre. Regeneration is taking place, but it is taking its time. By contrast the tourist landscape is one of pleasure seeking and escape - this is the Wales that visitors are sold and want to see. But in a small land this selling of culture for the tourist pound has complex consequences that build on the complexities of a relationship that has shaped so much of the landscape.
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James Morris is an acclaimed photographer of landscape and the built environment. His 2003 book, Butabu, Adobe Architecture of West Africa (Princeton Architectural Press), was described by the New York Times as (taking) the palm for the year's most haunting architectural images. An exhibition of the work has subsequently toured Britain, Ireland, Europe and the USA. Based in Wales, his work is in many private and public collections including The British Council; Museum of African Art, New York; Princeton University; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the National Library of Wales. Brought up in Manchester, Jim Perrin is an award-winning writer of Welsh descent. He lived and worked in Wales for many years including a period as a shepherd. His books include River Map (Gomer, 2001), The Villain: the life of Don Whillans (Hutchinson, 2005) and Travels with the Flea (In Pinn, 2003). His book The Climbing Essays won the mountaineering Literature Award at the 2006 Banff Mountain Festival.
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I was very disappointed with this purchase, it states landscapes of Wales, where were they, I do not class photos of terraced houses, refineries etc a landscape!! I thought they would be pictures of beauty where one would go and visit. I don't think a housing estate is a place to visit.
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