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A reader from Luton, Britain , 21 January, 1999 Superb photographic appetizer
for these wonderful churches. 
London's heritage, architecture and history are revealed in
this volume through panoramic photographs and text. The well-known sights
and landmarks appear, along with lesser-known places. 
There is always something new to discover about London. Just ask Matthew
Weinreb, an architectural photographer par excellence who has lived there
all his life. Better yet, tag along with him as he rediscovers his birthplace in this
homage to one of the most exciting cities in the world. Weinreb's stunning color
images--accompanied by his father Ben's commentary--include sculpted stone
angels, intricately crafted wrought-iron gates, medieval stained glass, neoclassical
doors, a bull's eye window at King's Cross Underground, the clock tower of the Royal
College of Music, and the decorative Tudor brick chimneys of Hampton Court. Not to mention
the magnificent terra cotta architecture of the Natural History Museum in South
Kensington. 
This is a collection of photographs of the interiors of the London
homes of 30 individuals from the world of the arts, film, fashion, design and
architecture, designed to capture the essence of living in London. 
This illustrated volume celebrates London's history and
present, providing a record of its architecture. Starting with the River
Thames, each succeeding chapter explores an area of London, following its chronological
development from the ancient city, to old central areas, such as Bloomsbury and Chelsea,
out to Chiswick in the west and Hampstead in the north, returning finally to revitalized
areas on the river's southbank . 
For centuries the river Thames was London's main thoroughfare, and many
famous landmarks line its banks. The Tower of London, The Houses of Parliament, Somerset
House and Chelsea Hospital all present their most imposing aspect to the river. This
volume takes the reader on a boat trip through London, exploring this fascinating waterway
and the history of the buildings and monuments on its banks. Angelo Hornak's photographs
offer a view of the river from the Thames Barrier in the east to Hampton Court in the
west, and the text as a whole provides a visual celebration of the Thames published
tocoincide with the river's important role in London's millennium celebrations. 
This work provides a photographic record of 100 of London's most interesting
period interiors, selected by a leading architectural historian. Specially commissioned
photographs capture the varied atmospheres, from gentlemen's clubs, hotels, restaurants,
shops, pubs and hospitals, to town houses. Each photograph is accompanied by a short text
which not only describes the key features of architectural and design interest, but also
uncovers related historical anecdotes. Examples include the Art Deco barber shop in the
basement of Austin Reed, and the tiled and mirrored halls of Cooke's eel and pie shop in
the East End. Intact interiors such as James Smith's umbrella shop in Bloomsbury and the
perfectly preserved Victorian interior of the Linley Sambourne house in Kensington are
also presented. 
The studio of photographer Juergen Teller, best known for his fashion
pictures, is located in a tiny street in West London. And it is the front door of his
studio that somehow seems to play the leading role in this book. During one year, from May
1998 to May 1999, Teller was visited by hundreds of girls, sent to him by agencies for a
casting shoot. At the beginning of this book there was a simple idea that struck Teller:
why not photograph all his young female visitors and turn the result into a convincing
conceptual piece of art photography? The result is striking, sometimes funny, and makes us
question the fashion industry and its world of models. We encounter girls, mostly around
the age of 16 or 17, presenting themselves to the photographer in the hope of a great
career. Sometimes they come alone, sometimes in groups, sometimes accompanied by their
parents. Captured in different lights of the changing seasons, but always at the entrance
of Teller's studio, the portraits seem to melt into one single portrait - that of the one
and only model, whatever she might look like. 
In their previous collaboration Lights Out For The Territory Marc
Atkins' few dark, brooding photographs added focus to Iain Sinclair's dense,
impressionistic, psychogeographical formulations about the city in which he loves to
drift. Here Atkins' penetrating black and white portraits and his beautiful, troubling
shots of a London we forget we know dominate. Sinclair adds occasional pieces in a
lighter, more journalistic prose than readers of his wonderful, overwrought novels might
expect, discussing Atkins, or one of his photographs, and their mutual project of
attempting to pin down the story that is London. And he writes about other scribes (Peter
Ackroyd, Michael Moorcock, John Healy) who share his fascination with one of the world's
great cities. This attempt to articulate a truth about a space is an impossible project,
and it is impossible to hold a fixed position on it--as the title Liquid City
suggests. Sinclair and Atkins know this (Sinclair praises his friend for creating flux
whereas his writing tries to "mould wriggling chaos") but the project proves
worthwhile as it has produced words and some remarkable pictures that only such a troubled
engagement could engender. This is a visual feast of contemporary photojournalism, in
which Atkins' visions and Sinclair's words help the reader perceive a London that can
easily be walked past daily. --Mark Thwaite 
Ellen Auerbach is a remarkable New York artist, honored in 1998 (at the age
of 92) with an important exhibit of her photographs at Berlin's prestigious Academie der
Kunst. Ellen Auerbach: Berlin, Tel Aviv, London, New York, the
exhibition catalog, traces her trajectory through the century with photos she took between
1929 and 1965. Some of her early images (created with studio partner
Grete Stern) have a surrealist tinge. In 1933, Auberbach, a German Jew, fled to Palestine,
where her photos captured the monumentality of landscape and the heroic power of
childhood. One image, "Beach Near Tel Aviv 1934," shows a small boy standing
proudly looking at a line of camels in the distance, reduced by the perspective to a
string of toy-sized animals. 
