ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND 1960 [Hardcover]

Bruce Davidson (Photographer), Mark Haworth-Booth (Contributor)

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Publication Date: November 21, 2008

In 1960, after spending an intense year photographing a notorious Brooklyn street gang called The Jokers, Bruce Davidson decided that he needed to get away from the tension, depression and potential violence connected to that work. He took on a commission to photograph Marilyn Monroe during the making of John Houston's film The Misfits in the Nevada desert, and then traveled to London on a commission for The Queen magazine. Edited by Jocelyn Stevens, The Queen was a magazine devoted to British lifestyle and Davidson was charged, with no specific agenda, to spend a couple of months touring England and Scotland to build a photographic portrait of the two countries. England/Scotland 1960 offers a visionary insight into the very heart of English and Scottish cultures. Reflecting a postwar era in which the revolutions of the 1960s had hardly yet filtered into the mainstream, Davidson's photographs reveal countries driven by difference--the extremes of city and country life, of the landed gentry and the common people--and lucidly portrays the mood of these times in personal and provocative imagery that is as fresh today as it was in that time. Published in this book for the first time in its entirety, this is one of undiscovered gems of late twentieth-century documentary photography.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Steidl (November 21, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3865211275
• ISBN-13: 978-3865211279
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 9.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,202,776 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars I'll just say WOW, September 26, 2010

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I'll let you read the previous reviews, as they've already summed up this book pretty nicely. This is a masterpiece of publishing. I'm very happy to have it part of my photo library.