The Lost Album: A Visual History of 1950s Britain

Hyman, Basil and David, Catherine

ISBN 10: 1861543204 / ISBN 13: 9781861543202

Verlag: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2011

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Inhaltsangabe:

Basil Hyman, a keen amateur photographer, took hundreds of photographs of everyday life in Britain during the 1950s. The Lost Album is a nostalgic look back at this long-gone era, filled with photographs made during a time of enormous social change--just after World War II and before the "Swinging Sixties"--and a wealth of ephemera: theater tickets and playbills, newspaper advertisements, ration books, and much more. Special inserts include actual facsimiles of some of these now-obscure items--talismans from a slower time, when formality, pride, and courtesy prevailed. 

There are special sections on two major events: the Festival of Britain in 1951, and the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. With brief, lively introductions and captions, this is a captivating snapshot of how people lived and played in Britain in those years.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Basil Hyman is the author, with Steven Braggs, of The G-Plan Revolution. He is the third generation of a family that has been in the furniture business since the 1920s, and has taken photographs all his life.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Lost Album: A Visual History of 1950s ...
Verlag: Booth-Clibborn Editions
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Used; Good