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Ha-ha - Margam Revisited (Paperback)
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Ha-ha - Margam Revisited (Paperback)
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Loot Price R280
Discovery Miles 2 800
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MARGAM PARK was the ancestral home of the Fox Talbots, of whom
Henry was a pioneering photographer. Some of the earliest
photographic images were made there. Steel made Margam Park, whose
gothic mansion looks down on the town of Margam and the works
formerly owned by the Fox Talbots. Today, it is Margam Country
Park, owned by the local authority and a leisure facility open to
the public - and to the workers of those steelworks. A feature of
the old park was its ha-ha, a ditch which creates an invisible
barrier between mansion and estate. Through stunningly produced
photographs this book revisits this birthplace of the form and
portrays it anew in contemporary landscape styles. The
photographers also explore past class distinctions and the changing
social history of both town and estate, a subject addressed in
words by one of them, Karen Ingham, and at greater length by Hugh
Adams, art lecturer and cultural critic who returns to the scene of
his childhood to discuss its artistic and social heritage. The
result is a unique and beautiful journey through the history of a
place which has significance in industrial, social and photographic
history. Co-published with Swansea Institute and Ffotogallery.
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