Rural Britain Then & Now: A Celebration of the British Countryside Featuring Photographs from the Francis Frith Collection
Francis Frith began to take his striking photographs of rural Britain in 1860. Over the next 50 years, he and his team of photographers took thousands of pictures capturing the special charm of the British countryside-its churches and castles, its quaint villages and rolling hills, its peaceful...
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Francis Frith began to take his striking photographs of rural Britain in 1860. Over the next 50 years, he and his team of photographers took thousands of pictures capturing the special charm of the British countryside-its churches and castles, its quaint villages and rolling hills, its peaceful vistas and haunted ruins, as well as its unpretentious, hard-working people. Now, side-by-side with contemporary photos taken a century or more later, these images offer an evocative record of a century of social change, as well as vivid testimony to Britain's enduring beauty
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781844034222 (1844034224)
ASIN: 1844034224
Publish date: 2004-10-01
Publisher: Cassell
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
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