Sylvester Jacobs: Portrait of England (1976 1ST ed) Photography

by Sylvester Jacobs

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Sylvester Jacobs: Portrait of England (1976 1ST edition) 220 pages In this beautiful book Sylvester Jacobs, a widely-acclaimed black photographer, takes a penetrating and highly personal view of English society. He writes in the foreword, "I have tried in my own way to photograph and understand those qualities that are both human and personal without making any attempt to be exhaustive or laying stress on the social or the political." He is concerned with what he describes as "the phenomena of personality", the understanding of England, private and public, through the features of men's faces: rich people, homeless people, disguised people, people crushed by circumstance, eccentric people, people making their mark, people making love. Sylvester Jacobs is not himself English but an American born in Oklahoma. So his perception and understanding are those of an outsider and doubly revealing. In her introduction, Leila Berg says: "Sylvester has used his camera to take him into a privileged world because the need to understand it, to meet apartness not with violence but with a search for common identity, quietly obsesses him." The 270 photographs in PORTRAIT OF ENGLAND are a deeply moving visual experience, and are bound to enhance Sylvester Jacobs' growing reputation.

• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Year: 1976
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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