Product Description

In the tradition of the great journeys taken by such photographers as Fox Talbot, Fenton and Bourne, Harry Cory Wright set out, in March 2006, on a quest to capture the variety of natural landscapes that make up the British Isles using a large-format plate camera. Beginning in the fragile, frozen beauty of Unst in Shetland at the spring equinox, he travelled down through the Western Isles and mainland Scotland to Northumberland and further south through England and Wales. This stunning book documents Cory Wright's remarkable journey. Each photograph is infused with the unique spirit of its location - from vast, wild mountain ranges to verdant, dewy forests at sunrise, from windswept beaches in winter to fields bathed in late summer, early evening sun.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #130483 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-10
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 191 pages

Review
Makes you wonder why you'd ever leave Britain again. --House and Garden, October 2007

From the Publisher
This title was the winner at the 2008 British Book Design and Production Awards in the category 'Photographic Books, Art/Architecture Monographs'.

The judges commented that "The photography is exemplary throughout, the narrative charming and inviting. The composition, repro, printing and finishing are all superb and entirely complementary to the subject matter".

About the Author
Harry Cory Wright is a leading landscape photographer whose images have been reproduced in numerous magazines and newspapers. Adam Nicolson is a well-known travel writer and historian. His books include Sea Room (2001), Seamanship (2004) and Men of Honour (2005).

Customer Reviews

Amazing pictures / cheap printing
The landscape pictures are amazing, some are downright overwhelming. Pictures: 5 Stars.

But shamefully the publisher choose a low-cost printing, which shows a obvious coarse printing-screen, especially in the grey-toned areas(clouds, fogs, dusky or hazy parts)of the pictures.

A beautiful collection of inspirational images
The photographs in this book are stunning and the book is presented in a format which is durable and easily handled yet displays the images well. Harry Cory Wright has obviously gone to extraordinary lengths to capture down to earth images of amazing clarity from around the UK and it shows. This book is a permanent feature on our coffee table and everyone in the house regularly enjoys thumbing through it. Highly recommended!

Dissapointing - Neither Contemporary nor Landscape Photography
A book that could have been brilliant is let down by a photographer who doesn't know whether to be Joe Cornish or Andreas Gursky. What might seem like a studied objective photography approach is let down by a lack of rigour . Occasionally Mr Wright tries his hand at the 'Grand' landscape but fails. Some of the photographs are undeniably good but the majority are dull. I think two of his blog statements "I stayed in a location for a couple of days to absorb the environment and then took a picture right next to where I was parked/camped" and "The camera I use gets more detail across than any camera I have ever used. It gives a relevance to everything in the frame. This allows the photographer to use it with great confidence, knowing that the final print will reveal more (not less) than you were able to take in at the time. The more I go on using the camera the less I worry about the detail and this lets me concentrate on the bigger thing; the feel of the whole place, the 'sum' as you say." really say it all...