Merrie Albion (signed)
by Simon Roberts
Photographs: Simon Roberts
Text: David Chandler, A L Kennedy, Alex Vasudevan, Carol Ann Duffy, David Matless, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Ian Jeffrey, Irenosen Okojie, Nikesh Shukla and Tristram Hunt.
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
152 pages
Pictures: 66 colour plates
Year: 2017
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-911306-19-1
Price: 59 €
Comments: 34 cm x 28,3 cm
LANDSCAPE STUDIES OF A SMALL ISLAND
For over a decade, Simon Roberts has photographed events and places across Britain that have drawn people together in public, communal experiences. This has often been an implicit theme of his work, the apparent desire for common presence and participation and the need to share a sense of belonging, suggesting something distinctive about our national character and identity.
Whilst Roberts’s interests have often gravitated towards evolving patterns of leisure, and the consumption and commodification of history, he has also chosen to photograph events and places that have a more immediate, topical significance in the turning of Britain’s recent history, and which – summoning the sense of a national survey – collectively form a visual chronicle of the times in which we live.
Merrie Albion ranges across several of his projects from the last decade, projects that have explored not only our leisure landscape but also our social and political landscape. The book registers a distinct shift in approach, and tone, from his work in We English. Roberts has exchanged the element of discovery and revelation evident in his earlier travels through England, for a form of ‘reporting’, in which he responds to subjects and places that are already firmly positioned within the public consciousness – defining locations in our recent national story.
Recognised internationally as one of the UK’s leading photographers, Simon Roberts deals with our relationship to landscape and notions of identity and belonging. He examines contemporary economic, cultural and political landscapes, often through expansive tableaux photographs. Selected as the 2010 British Election Artist, he has exhibited widely with solo shows at National Media Museum in Bradford (UK), the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma (Italy), and the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow (Russia) amongst others. His work is in major collections including George Eastman House, Deutsche Börse Collection and Wilson Centre for Photography. His previous books include Motherland (Chris Boot, 2007), We English (Chris Boot, 2009), and Pierdom (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2013).
Merrie Albion is designed by Ben Weaver, and made possible thanks to the generous support of The Incite Project. www.inciteproject.com
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Merrie Albion (signed)
by Simon Roberts
Photographs: Simon Roberts
Text: David Chandler, A L Kennedy, Alex Vasudevan, Carol Ann Duffy, David Matless, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Ian Jeffrey, Irenosen Okojie, Nikesh Shukla and Tristram Hunt.
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
152 pages
Pictures: 66 colour plates
Year: 2017
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-911306-19-1
Price: 59 €
Comments: 34 cm x 28,3 cm
LANDSCAPE STUDIES OF A SMALL ISLAND
For over a decade, Simon Roberts has photographed events and places across Britain that have drawn people together in public, communal experiences. This has often been an implicit theme of his work, the apparent desire for common presence and participation and the need to share a sense of belonging, suggesting something distinctive about our national character and identity.
Whilst Roberts’s interests have often gravitated towards evolving patterns of leisure, and the consumption and commodification of history, he has also chosen to photograph events and places that have a more immediate, topical significance in the turning of Britain’s recent history, and which – summoning the sense of a national survey – collectively form a visual chronicle of the times in which we live.
Merrie Albion ranges across several of his projects from the last decade, projects that have explored not only our leisure landscape but also our social and political landscape. The book registers a distinct shift in approach, and tone, from his work in We English. Roberts has exchanged the element of discovery and revelation evident in his earlier travels through England, for a form of ‘reporting’, in which he responds to subjects and places that are already firmly positioned within the public consciousness – defining locations in our recent national story.
Recognised internationally as one of the UK’s leading photographers, Simon Roberts deals with our relationship to landscape and notions of identity and belonging. He examines contemporary economic, cultural and political landscapes, often through expansive tableaux photographs. Selected as the 2010 British Election Artist, he has exhibited widely with solo shows at National Media Museum in Bradford (UK), the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma (Italy), and the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow (Russia) amongst others. His work is in major collections including George Eastman House, Deutsche Börse Collection and Wilson Centre for Photography. His previous books include Motherland (Chris Boot, 2007), We English (Chris Boot, 2009), and Pierdom (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2013).
Merrie Albion is designed by Ben Weaver, and made possible thanks to the generous support of The Incite Project. www.inciteproject.com
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by Simon Roberts
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ToiletMartin PaperParr Magazine (signed - last copy)
by Martin Parr
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by Martin Parr
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by Julian Mährlein
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Euro 165 -
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by Joachim Brohm & Valentina Seidel
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by Michael Wolf
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by Natalia Baluta
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by Marco Rigamonti
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Waldungen (German edition)
by Bernhard Fuchs
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by Mario Giacomelli
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Merrie Albion (signed)
by Simon Roberts
Photographs: Simon Roberts
Text: David Chandler, A L Kennedy, Alex Vasudevan, Carol Ann Duffy, David Matless, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Ian Jeffrey, Irenosen Okojie, Nikesh Shukla and Tristram Hunt.
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
152 pages
Pictures: 66 colour plates
Year: 2017
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-911306-19-1
Price: 59 €
Comments: 34 cm x 28,3 cm
LANDSCAPE STUDIES OF A SMALL ISLAND
For over a decade, Simon Roberts has photographed events and places across Britain that have drawn people together in public, communal experiences. This has often been an implicit theme of his work, the apparent desire for common presence and participation and the need to share a sense of belonging, suggesting something distinctive about our national character and identity.
Whilst Roberts’s interests have often gravitated towards evolving patterns of leisure, and the consumption and commodification of history, he has also chosen to photograph events and places that have a more immediate, topical significance in the turning of Britain’s recent history, and which – summoning the sense of a national survey – collectively form a visual chronicle of the times in which we live.
Merrie Albion ranges across several of his projects from the last decade, projects that have explored not only our leisure landscape but also our social and political landscape. The book registers a distinct shift in approach, and tone, from his work in We English. Roberts has exchanged the element of discovery and revelation evident in his earlier travels through England, for a form of ‘reporting’, in which he responds to subjects and places that are already firmly positioned within the public consciousness – defining locations in our recent national story.
Recognised internationally as one of the UK’s leading photographers, Simon Roberts deals with our relationship to landscape and notions of identity and belonging. He examines contemporary economic, cultural and political landscapes, often through expansive tableaux photographs. Selected as the 2010 British Election Artist, he has exhibited widely with solo shows at National Media Museum in Bradford (UK), the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma (Italy), and the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow (Russia) amongst others. His work is in major collections including George Eastman House, Deutsche Börse Collection and Wilson Centre for Photography. His previous books include Motherland (Chris Boot, 2007), We English (Chris Boot, 2009), and Pierdom (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2013).
Merrie Albion is designed by Ben Weaver, and made possible thanks to the generous support of The Incite Project. www.inciteproject.com
More books by Simon Roberts
-
Landscapes of Innocence and Experience (signed - last copy)
by Simon Roberts
sold out -
Pierdom (signed)
by Simon Roberts
sold out -
The Election Project Newspaper (signed)
by Simon Roberts
sold out -
The Gray Friars of Canning Town
by Simon Roberts
Euro 18
more books tagged »British« | >> see all
-
Paradise Street: The lost art of playing outside
by various photographers
sold out -
Coming up for Air
by Stephen Gill
Euro 44 -
British Rituals
by David Levenson
Euro 25 -
Portrait of Britain
by various photographers
sold out -
ToiletMartin PaperParr Magazine (signed - last copy)
by Martin Parr
sold out -
Beach Therapy (signed)
by Martin Parr
Euro 45
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-
London Youth
by Julian Mährlein
Euro 24 -
Tokyo Compression Final Cut (signed - last two copies)
by Michael Wolf
sold out -
a shimmer of possibility (signed, pre-order)
by Paul Graham
sold out -
Alive
by Mario Testino
Euro 165 -
Perché quel fumo è giallo? / Why Is That Smoke Yellow?
by Joachim Brohm & Valentina Seidel
Euro 55 -
Tokyo Compression Final Cut (last copy)
by Michael Wolf
sold out
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-
Sea I become by degrees (signed)
by Natalia Baluta
sold out -
Tell the children (signed)
by Andrea Geremia
sold out -
The still hour / La hora inmóvil
by Bernard Plossu
Euro 46.20 -
Nativity Scenes (book + print)
by Marco Rigamonti
Euro 66 -
Waldungen (German edition)
by Bernhard Fuchs
Euro 48 -
Under the Skin of Reality
by Mario Giacomelli
sold out
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-
An Old Forest Road
by Robert Adams
sold out -
Goosewalk - Collector's Edition II (book + print)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 140 -
Orion (last copy - signed)
by Christopher De Béthune
sold out -
Des Oiseaux (book + signed print)
by Pentti Sammallahti
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Cry of an Echo (signed)
by Malgorzata Stankiewicz
Euro 38.50 -
Archiving Eden
by Dornith Doherty
Euro 55
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-
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by Roger Tiley
Euro 25 -
Inner City (London)
by Peter Köllerer
Euro 28 -
England Sports and Social '78-'83
by Gil Rigoulet
Euro 25 -
Patrick Procktor and Friends
by Homer Sykes
sold out -
CARNIVAL (last copy)
by Mark Steinmetz
Euro 165 -
Hartlepool 1960s
by John Bulmer
Euro 60
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-
Dog Show 1961-1978
by Shirley Baker
Euro 20 -
Open: Twenty one photographs (book + print)
by Brian Griffin
Euro 395 -
Martin Parr (signed)
by Martin Parr
sold out -
Makers of East London - used copy
by Charlotte Schreiber & Katie Treggiden
Euro 39 23.40 -
The Real World
by Martin Parr & Rimaldas Viksraitis
sold out -
Shoreditch Wildelife (Photo Book 4 - last copy)
by Dougie Wallace
sold out
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