London. Portrait of a City - Reseñas
| "A perfectly-timed tribute to the city that's bringing us the 2012 Olympics, TASCHEN releases a photographic love letter to London for their Portrait of a City series."— AcquireMag.com, Los Angeles, Estados Unidos |
| „Neben grandiosen Fotografien wird Londons Geschichte auch durch lebendige Essays, unzählige Quotes und Verweise auf Filme, Musikalben und literarische Werke erzählt, in denen oder für die London eine Rolle spielte. ... Eindrucksvolle Bilder zeigen London in all seinen Facetten. ... Das Buch ist erstklassig verarbeitet, die Seiten sind sehr griffig, das Papier ist hochwertig und verfügt über eine angenehme Haptik. ... Alles in allem ist das Buch von außen wie von innen stimmig und ansprechend gestaltet ... Diesen Bildband kann man also getrost allen Fotografie-Begeisterten, allen Kulturinteressierten, allen Weltenbummlern und solchen, die es gerne werden möchten, wärmstens empfehlen.“— Com-on-online.de, Heidenheim, Alemania |
| „Das Fotomaterial ist atemberaubend und einmalig. Mehr kann man bald dazu nicht sagen, das muss man gesehen haben. Es ist so vielseitig und gibt die Geschichte Londons und der Menschen, die London ausmachen, so gut wider, dass man immer wieder darin blättern kann und immer wieder etwas Neues entdeckt.”— www.ciao.de, München, Alemania |
| „Die ganze Stadt mit ihrer Geschichte in einem Buch – großartige Bilder aus verräucherten Pubs oder diskreten Gentlemen-Clubs, Blicke in neblige Kopfsteinplasterstraßen, durch die sicher schon Oliver Twist traurig ums Eck geschlichen ist.”— www.welt.de, Berlin, Alemania |
| "It’s the books first half – up until the First World War – that really memorizes. One stunning photographer after another reveals the teeming chaos, industry and squalor of London’s Victorian and Edwardian streets; avenues packed with carriages and horse-drawn omnibuses; the muddy calm of the riverside wharves at dawn: huge elephant tusks being inspected on the Ivory Floor at St Katherine’s Dock in 1913. Grand architectural ghosts loom through the smog – the original Crystal Palace hosting the Great Exhibition, and Battersea Power Station at full steam in 1934. It’s a fascinating catalogue of construction... and the catastrophic destruction of both World Wars. London’s industrial past, it’s rigid class structures and aspirations shift and reformulate before your eyes as the years roll by, captured to perfection by Bill Brandt and Cecil Beaton, and an array of anonymous snappers. Choice quotes from contemporaneous books, articles and essays appear alongside: Tower Bridge, newly minted in 1894, is denounced by The Builder as 'the most monstrous and preposterous architectural sham that we have ever know'."— Blueprint, London, Reino Unido |
| "The older pictures offer a fascinating glimpse into a world of horse-drawn carts trotting up and down a near empty Regent Street as well as a reminder of the older streets that have long since been redeveloped or bombed out of living memory. With contributions from a whole raft of photographers (with brief biographies of each at the back) – as well as thoughtfully compiled lists of suggested reading, viewing and even music related to the city – this hefty tome gives the pin sharp pictures the space to reveal all their wonderful detail, making it a beauty that would grace the coffee table of anyone who’s ever lived or worked in old London town!"— Mayfair, London, Reino Unido |
| "The muted, seaside postcard colours of analogue film are rendered beautifully on the page with a typically TASCHEN attention to production... The misty horizons of the capital and softly out of focus mews of the ‘60s onwards are candidly captured with a warmth of tone which is intimate and nostalgic... These photographs aren’t the hackneyed and prim tourist shots of the Tower of London or Trafalgar Square... Rather they are focused on the people and changing fashions and subtle landscapes which so often go overlooked... It’s only upon looking through such a stately visual history that one realises what a huge and strange area of the world London is."— Morning Star Online, London, Reino Unido |
| "London: its red buses and telephone booths, punks and royals, pubs and taxi ranks. So many icons are associated with the Big Smoke that most attempts to represent it end up verging on caricature. TASCHEN’s newly-released coffee-table book London: Portrait of a City deftly avoids this pitfall... Each of the five sections is introduced by a short, informative introduction, which leaves ample room for the pictures to speak for themselves. [Reuel] Golden combines histories big and small... An unmistakeable sense of nostalgia permeates these pages, lamenting, perhaps, the city’s progressive surrender to international corporations. Yet the book’s focus isn’t the built environment as much as the people inhabiting it... London: Portrait of a City is a celebration of a very British spirit, forged and ceaselessly reinvented in this crucible of nations."— ArtInfo, London, Reino Unido |
| "Visual Affect. Flipping out for Fall’s gorgeous coffee-table books. London is calling with London: Portrait of a City by Reuel Golden (TASCHEN)."— Vanity Fair, New York, Estados Unidos |
| «Londres, la glorieuse. Londres la royale. Londres la rockeuse. Londres, la ville sans limites. Tout commence à Londres. C’est à cette city fascinante que Reuel Golden, auteur New Yorkais, aidé par des sous titres de Barry Miles auteur d’un très beau livre Ici Londres, une histoire de l’underground Londonien depuis 1945... dédie un magnifique ouvrage d’environ 500 pages publié chez TASCHEN. Portrait d’une ville captivante.»— Theglamattitude.com, Lyon, Francia |
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London. Portrait of a City. Art Edition A Tapa dura en estuche de bisagra con impresión en un porfolio, 9.8 x 13.4 in., 552 páginas, $ 850 Edición limitada de 500 ejemplares diseñados por Paul Smith y una artística copia de la fotografía Piccadilly Circus de Elmar Ludwig |
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London. Portrait of a City. Art Edition B Tapa dura en estuche de bisagra con impresión en un porfolio, 9.8 x 13.4 in., 552 páginas, $ 850 Edición limitada de 500 ejemplares diseñados por Paul Smith y una artística copia de la fotografía Traffic Policeman de Elmar Ludwig |