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Clive Boursnell's photo-essay documents the end of an era and stands as a memorial to a vanished part of London life. (Ham & High )
My heart sank at first. Oh god, not another picture book about a picturesque corner of London, especially over-hyped Covent Garden. Then it leapt right back up. How wrong I was. Very rapidly I became absolutely absorbed. Now I am recommending it effusively to anyone who will listen. This is not only a fascinating book, it is an act of photographic salvage and a very valuable historic record. (Design Week )
What is remarkable about his photographs is that the routine acts of life - the shouting, the smoking, the errands and conversations of the market traders and their customers - are revealed as being full of grace, drama, humour and surprise, as though the Covent Garden street market were a stage and its occupants all actors, orators and dancers. (Times )
The beautiful collection of 300 photos is stunning just on a visual level, but it also celebrates the tight-knit community of Covent Garden, and stands as an archive of a vibrant part of London's history. (Times )
I can recall no other volume that has had such a powerful Proustian effect on me as the new book Covent Garden by Clive Boursnell. I worked on the fringe of the market for some of this period. From the moment I opened the book, I was hurtled - whoosh! - back across the decades. My head filled with the smell - a mixture of ancient cabbage, fresh salad, Players No. 6 and diesel exhaust - of the Piazza. (Christopher Hirst Independent Magazine )
My heart sank at first. Oh god, not another picture book about a picturesque corner of London, especially over-hyped Covent Garden. Then it leapt right back up. How wrong I was. Very rapidly I became absolutely absorbed. Now I am recommending it effusively to anyone who will listen. This is not only a fascinating book, it is an act of photographic salvage and a very valuable historic record. (Design Week )
What is remarkable about his photographs is that the routine acts of life - the shouting, the smoking, the errands and conversations of the market traders and their customers - are revealed as being full of grace, drama, humour and surprise, as though the Covent Garden street market were a stage and its occupants all actors, orators and dancers. (Times )
The beautiful collection of 300 photos is stunning just on a visual level, but it also celebrates the tight-knit community of Covent Garden, and stands as an archive of a vibrant part of London's history. (Times )
I can recall no other volume that has had such a powerful Proustian effect on me as the new book Covent Garden by Clive Boursnell. I worked on the fringe of the market for some of this period. From the moment I opened the book, I was hurtled - whoosh! - back across the decades. My head filled with the smell - a mixture of ancient cabbage, fresh salad, Players No. 6 and diesel exhaust - of the Piazza. (Christopher Hirst Independent Magazine )
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The magic of the old Covent Garden Market is evoked through Peter Ackroyd's introduction and Clive Boursnell's marvellous photographs, taken over the course of numerous and extended visits to Covent Garden in the 1960s and 1970s. The book includes a preface by Clive Boursnell and the words of some of the market people whom the photographer interviewed at the time. There will be an exhibition of Clive Boursnell's photographs of Covent Garden to coincide with publication.
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