The Face of London

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THE FACE OF
LONDON
With 165 photographs, including 8 in colour
London, once the hub of the greatest ennpire in history, remains one of the world's most enjoyable cities. Visited by tourists in their millions, the city offers them an astonishing variety of scenes: the traditional splendour of the royal palaces and the Houses of Parliament contrasts with the cheerful commercialism of Piccadilly Circus; the sober dignity of St. Paul's Cathedral with the bustle of the City that spreads below it. Elegance and ugliness, old and new, are thrown together in haphazard and fascinating confusion, so that even those who live there are constantly learning new things about London.
This book, the work of a lively young photographer with a keen interest in the city, records its vitality and variety and provides both the visitor and the native Londoner with a portrait that he will treasure.
Ranging from the great monuments of the capital like the Tower, Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE FACE OF
LONDON
With 165 photographs, including 8 in colour
London, once the hub of the greatest ennpire in history, remains one of the world's most enjoyable cities. Visited by tourists in their millions, the city offers them an astonishing variety of scenes: the traditional splendour of the royal palaces and the Houses of Parliament contrasts with the cheerful commercialism of Piccadilly Circus; the sober dignity of St. Paul's Cathedral with the bustle of the City that spreads below it. Elegance and ugliness, old and new, are thrown together in haphazard and fascinating confusion, so that even those who live there are constantly learning new things about London.
This book, the work of a lively young photographer with a keen interest in the city, records its vitality and variety and provides both the visitor and the native Londoner with a portrait that he will treasure.
Ranging from the great monuments of the capital like the Tower, Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace to quiet 'mews' and back-streets, Richard Gloucester takes the reader on a conducted tour of all that forms the essential London. The fashionable quarters, the brilliant array of the City spires now partially hidden by the glass towers of the big banks and insurance companies, the quiet charm of the royal parks, the bright colours of the Sovereign's Escort in The Mall and the 'Changing of the Guard', the hidden beauties of the eighteenth-century squares and the quiet gardens of former villages, all these together make up this superb picture of the face of London.
Richard Gloucester is a 29-year-old architect and photographer who lives and works in London.
PHAIDON Vissza