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The Landscape (Hardcover)
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'The veteran war photographer [Don McCullin] has turned his lens to
more peaceful scenes... for his latest book, The Landscape. The
images carry a dramatic feel and a preference for stormy skies that
reveal an intimacy with conflict and destruction.' Guardian After a
career spanning sixty years, Sir Don McCullin, once a witness to
conflict across the globe, has become one of the great landscape
photographers of our time. McCullin's pastoral view is far from
idyllic. Though the woods and stream close to his house in Somerset
have offered some respite, he has not sought out the quiet corners
of rural England. He is drawn, instead, to the drama of approaching
storms. He has an acute sense of how the emptiness of his immediate
landscape echoes a wider tone of disquiet. McCullin is based in the
geographical centre of southern England. The presence of sacred
mounds, hill forts, ancient roads and the nearby monuments of the
prehistoric era have shaped his sense of nationhood. But down on
the Somerset Levels, he has tramped through the flooded lowlands.
The imagery of his home county, ravaged by storms, inevitably
projects the associations of a battlefield, or, at least, the views
of one intimate with scenes of war. He is not alone in his
preference for darkened clouds over clear skies. McCullin's West
Country is not far removed from the East Anglia of Constable's
Dedham Vale two centuries earlier. His knowledge of his historical
predecessors places him deep in a Romantic tradition. His
experience as a traveller reinforces the sense of a man on the edge
of civilisation under siege. Nowhere is this more apparent than in
his repeated views of the glories of Palmyra and of the destruction
of this ancient Syrian city. The Landscape is the last in a long
series of books published by Jonathan Cape, which encompasses the
entirety of McCullin's working life.
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