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Description: | This book is an ode to the lost architecture of London, following air raid damage of World War Two.
Cecil Beaton was a famous photographer, illustrator and writer, known for his surrealist portraits of society's best and for his fashion images for Vogue magazine. There is something of the surreal in many of his images for this book, with their juxtapositions of fallen debris and the strange cityscapes of bombed-out London.
The writing in the book, by noted biographer James Pope-Hennessy, is emotive. It bemoans the loss of the last examples of Medieval and Renaissance architecture in London. Pope-Hennessy writes as though the Germans had purposefully set out to destroy the architectural heart of the city.
(JA) | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | MoDA | Rights holder: | MoDA, Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (Middlesex University) | Subjects: | London at War | Temporal: | (1941) | Source: | Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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