Hailed by the poet and architectural historian Sir John Betjeman as
"a genius at photography", Edwin Smith (1912 - 1971) was one of
Britain's foremost photographers. At the time of his death he was
widely regarded as without peer in his sensitive renditions of
historic architecture and his empathetic evocations of place. The
recurrent themes of Smith's work - a concern for the fragility of
the environment; an acute appreciation of the need to combat
cultural homogenization by safeguarding regional diversity; and a
conviction that architecture should be rooted in time and place -
are as pressing today as when Smith first framed them in his
elegant compositions. By providing the first in-depth survey of his
work, this book introduces Smith's poignant imagery to a new
generation. This paperback edition accompanies the RibA exhibition
at 66 Portland Place, London, entitled A Vanishing Past: The
Photography of Edwin Smith, 11 September 2014 to 13 December 2014.
The exhibition will then travel to the Mann Island Gallery in
Liverpool in 2016.
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