The New Gypsies: The New Gypsies (E) - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 3791349961 ISBN 13: 9783791349961

Casa editrice: Prestel Pub, 2014

Riassunto

Now available in a new edition, this book is photographer Iain Mckell’s extraordinary and breathtakingly beautiful glimpse into the lives of present-day nomads whose culture is built around ideals of freedom, nature, and simplicity. Unrelated to the Roma, the new gypsies began in 1986 when a group of Post-Punk Anti-Thatcher protesters headed out of London into the English countryside. McKell followed these New Age Travelers to the West Country and over the years he watched them become a hybrid tribe–the new gypsies–present-day rural anarchists, living in elaborately decorated horse-drawn caravans. Known as "Horsedrawn," the new gypsies share a desire for sustainability, a love of self-reliance, and a disdain for the trappings of contemporary life. For more than a decade McKell has focused his lens on travelers of all ages: parents, children, couples, and loners. With sensitivity and honesty he captures a way of life that seems at once romantic, strange, beautiful, and simple. The result is a deeply insightful portrayal of a culture that eschews the traditional creature comforts of urban life in favor of the simplicity and freedom of the natural world.

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An honest and sensitive series of images. The photographs are insightful, romantic and strange...this book acts as a definitive document of a rural people who have escaped the shackles of urban life. --Amateur Photographer, May 2011.

Full of gorgeous photography, this book offers an extraordinary glimpse into the lives of a real group of present-day nomads.. [McKell] captures a way of life that is at once romantic, strange and beautiful. --Booktime Magazine,2011

Iain McKell has spent a decade photographing a modern breed of traveller - those who aren't born into the life but have chosen to live off the grid. --The Times

Full of gorgeous photography, this book offers an extraordinary glimpse into the lives of a real group of present-day nomads.. [McKell] captures a way of life that is at once romantic, strange and beautiful. --Booktime Magazine,2011

Iain McKell has spent a decade photographing a modern breed of traveller - those who aren't born into the life but have chosen to live off the grid. --The Times

L'autore:

Iain McKell is an internationally known photographer whose work has appeared in numerous major publications such as V, Sunday Times, i-D, and Italian Vogue.

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• Editore: Prestel Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3791349961
• ISBN 13: 9783791349961
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 127