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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Titre(s) : The photographs of Joan Leigh Fermor [Texte imprimé] : artist and lover / Ian Collins, Olivia Stewart
Publication : London : Haus publishing limited, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 276 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Note(s) : "Elusive, enigmatic and beautiful, Joan Leigh Fermor [a.k.a. Joan Rayner] (1912-2003)
was also one of the finest photographers of her time. Although hailed and hired by
John Betjeman and Cyril Connolly from the 1930s, and a remarkable recorder of the
London Blitz, she most excelled in pictures of unspoilt Greece taken between 1945
and 1960 as visual notes and with no thought of publication. The scale of her achievement
was only discovered after her death in 2003. What emerge in her wide-ranging work
is an eye of immense subtlety and empathy, and an entire absence of ego. The artist's
ease is reciprocated in the faces of Cretan shepherds, Meteoran monastics and Macedonian
bear-tamers. Her vision is both intimate in portraiture and architecture, and panoramic
in landscape, and most firmly focused in an abiding love of Greece. The archive of
5,000 images now in the National Library of Scotland - and partly introduced in this
monograph - reveals, at long last, a 20th century photographer of significance."--Provided
by publisher
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Collins, Ian
Stewart, Olivia
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Joan Leigh Fermor
Sujet(s) : Rayner, Joan (1912-2003)
Photographie artistique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1910376949. - ISBN 9781910376942 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45583960r
Notice n° :
FRBNF45583960
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
