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Terms and conditions applyLost Gardens of England: From the Archives of Country Life
Kathryn Bradley-Hole
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Format: Book
Pages: 192
Publisher: Aurum Press
Date Published: May 2004
Stock Code: 35741
Binding: Hardback
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'Black and white photographs of gardens - an idea whose time has come? Well, gone and come perhaps - this latest in Aurum Press' series of excerpts from the Country Life archives reproduces photos from a largely vanished age (pre-WW2) when one suspects that everything was in black and white. The monochromaticity of the pictures lends them an elegant austerity - formal gardens that might look sickly in full colour acquire the romantic tint of early British cinema, especially if there is a mustachioed figure in the middle distance. It's true that too much nostalgia will make a man twisted, but then again some things merit preserving, including beautifully shot pictures of hedges cut into the shape of cobras. Elegiac evidence that the past is indeed a foreign country. This is a superior coffee table tome from an age before coffee tables'.
Review by Samuel Carpenter
Review by Samuel Carpenter
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