- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Aspex Visual Arts Trust; illustrated edition edition (1 Feb 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955025818
- ISBN-13: 978-0955025815
- Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 21.8 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 410,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book contains essays by Alistair Robinson and Rosemary Shirley. "The Caravan Gallery" is a gallery in a caravan and visual arts project run by artists Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale who are on a mission to record the ordinary and extraordinary details of life in 21st century Britain. These photographs represent aspects of leisure, landscape and lifestyle in the UK today; some illustrate current trends and preoccupations such as 'regeneration' and the consequences thereof, others arise from chance encounters and accidental discoveries.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Caravan Gallery's first book Welcome to Britain (ISBN 0755314476) presented a rich vein of quirky Britishness revealing the ordinary and mundane in glorious colour but unfortunately, I thought, it was all spoilt by the photos being crammed into a very drab looking book. This latest one at last gives the photographs the treatment they deserve: one to a page (eleven pages have four) generous margins, good paper and well printed with 175dpi.
The 125 photos continue the theme of the first book with wry observations of the lifestyle of ordinary folk relaxing and the environment in which they do it. This is certainly not the Britain of the tourist brochure. Fortunately there is not a whiff of royalty, stately homes, the sentimental landscape or anything to do with the Establishment and Authority. The strange thing is that these photos depicting the ordinary actually become rather extraordinary as you turn over the pages and it is a tribute to Williams and Teasdale that they have managed to capture so much without resorting to gimmickry, trendy angles, filters and other dubious photo techniques in order to hype up the content.
There are plenty of photo books depicting 'real' Britain but few that actually show reality. 'Is Britain Great?' fortunately answers that question with humour and honesty.
***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
The 125 photos continue the theme of the first book with wry observations of the lifestyle of ordinary folk relaxing and the environment in which they do it. This is certainly not the Britain of the tourist brochure. Fortunately there is not a whiff of royalty, stately homes, the sentimental landscape or anything to do with the Establishment and Authority. The strange thing is that these photos depicting the ordinary actually become rather extraordinary as you turn over the pages and it is a tribute to Williams and Teasdale that they have managed to capture so much without resorting to gimmickry, trendy angles, filters and other dubious photo techniques in order to hype up the content.
There are plenty of photo books depicting 'real' Britain but few that actually show reality. 'Is Britain Great?' fortunately answers that question with humour and honesty.
***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
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A mundane celebration
30 Sep 2007
Format:Paperback
The Caravan Gallery's first book Welcome to Britain: A Celebration of Real Life presented a rich vein of quirky Britishness revealing the ordinary and mundane in glorious color but unfortunately, I thought, it was all spoilt by the photos being crammed into a very drab looking book. This latest one at last gives the photographs the treatment they deserve: one to a page (eleven pages have four) generous margins, good paper and well printed with 175dpi.
The 125 photos continue the theme of the first book with wry observations of the lifestyle of ordinary folk relaxing and the environment in which they do it. This is certainly not the Britain of the tourist brochure. Fortunately there is not a whiff of royalty, stately homes, the sentimental landscape or anything to do with the Establishment and Authority. The strange thing is that these photos depicting the ordinary actually become rather extraordinary as you turn over the pages and it is a tribute to Williams and Teasdale that they have managed to capture so much without resorting to gimmickry, trendy angles, filters and other dubious photo techniques in order to hype up the content.
There are plenty of photo books depicting 'real' Britain but few that actually show reality. 'Is Britain Great?' fortunately answers that question with humor and honesty.
****FOR AN INSDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
The 125 photos continue the theme of the first book with wry observations of the lifestyle of ordinary folk relaxing and the environment in which they do it. This is certainly not the Britain of the tourist brochure. Fortunately there is not a whiff of royalty, stately homes, the sentimental landscape or anything to do with the Establishment and Authority. The strange thing is that these photos depicting the ordinary actually become rather extraordinary as you turn over the pages and it is a tribute to Williams and Teasdale that they have managed to capture so much without resorting to gimmickry, trendy angles, filters and other dubious photo techniques in order to hype up the content.
There are plenty of photo books depicting 'real' Britain but few that actually show reality. 'Is Britain Great?' fortunately answers that question with humor and honesty.
****FOR AN INSDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
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