The New Gypsies - Rilegato

Sanger, Ezmeralda; Williams, Val

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ISBN 10: 3791345192 ISBN 13: 9783791345192

Casa editrice: Prestel Pub, 2011

Riassunto

Photographer Iain McKell offers an extraordinary and breathtakingly beautiful glimpse into the lives of a real and raw group of present-day nomads whose culture is built around ideals of freedom, nature, and simplicity. Historically despised the new Gypsies are there by choice, not heritage. Unrelated to the Roma, the movement 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 Travellers to the West Country and over the years he watched them become a hybrid tribe - the new gypsies - present-day rural anarchists, living the subversive lifestyle in elaborately decorated horse-drawn caravans. Known as 'Horse-drawn', 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 travellers 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 favour 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

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 Magazine, 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

L'autore:

Iain McKell is an international 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: 2011
• ISBN 10: 3791345192
• ISBN 13: 9783791345192
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 127