A Village Lost and Found: An Annotated Tour of the 1850s series of Stereo Photographs "Scenes in our Village" by T.R. Williams [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

May, Brian; Vidal, Elena

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0711230390 ISBN 13: 9780711230392

Verlag: Frances Lincoln, 2009

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This book is the perfect antidote to the stress of life in the 21st Century.

It portrays the idyll of life in an 1850s village, "far from the sound of the train's whistle".



The identity of the village was lost to the world for 150 years, and only by a miracle does this magical set of stereoscopic views survive, brought together for the very first time by Brian May and his co-author, photohistorian Elena Vidal. Their research is amazingly in-depth, but the book is utterly readable, and the pictures leap into glorious 3-D, viewed in the new focussing stereoscope which May has designed and produced, to bring the stereos to life, and then fold neatly into the slip-case of the book.



The book gives an extraordinary insight into everyday village life at the time - with a woman at her spinning wheel, the blacksmith outside his smithy, three men at the grind stone sharpening a tool, the villagers in the fields, bringing in the harvest as well as often taking time to enjoy a good gossip.



In every case the original verse which accompanied the view is reproduced. In addition, May and Vidal have researched and annotated all the views, revealing another layer of meaning, by exploring the history of these real characters, this idyllic village and its links with the present day.



The result is a powerfully atmospheric and touching set of photographs."



A Village Lost and Found brings master pioneering stereographer T. R. Williams's passionate life-work Scenes in Our Village to a new audience - in glorious 3-D, as never before.



For an Electronic Press Kit for A Village Lost and Found click here. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Brian May, CBE, PhD, FRAS is a founding member of Queen, a world-renowned guitarist, songwriter, producer and performer. Brian had to postpone a career in astronomy when Queen's popularity first exploded, but, after an incendiary 30 years as a rock musician, was able to return to astrophysics in 2006, when he completed his PhD, and co-authored his first book, Bang! The Complete History of the Universe, with Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott. Stereography has been a life-long passion for Brian. ELENA VIDAL has worked as a conservator of paintings in Florence, Spain and the UK. She graduated as an MA in Photographic Conservation at the Camberwell School of Arts, and has subsequently specialised in the history of stereoscopic photography. Since meeting Brian May in 1997, Elena has collaborated with him on a long-term study of Thomas Richard Williams, and has published a number of articles.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Frances Lincoln
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0711230390
• ISBN 13: 9780711230392
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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