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The photographer and his wife eagerly began documenting the sites abandoned interiors and surroundings, dreading the prisons potential closure. It was converted into a well-frequented museum in 1997 and included on the World Heritage List by UNESCO in 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe black-and-white photographs of this volume conspicuously favor close-up depictions of details as opposed to general views: leftover items, barbed wire fences, spacious dormitories viewed through a spyhole, the key in the lock to Mandelas cell which is so tiny it cannot be taken as a wholeall this is conveying the gloomy sense of claustrophobia and suppression that characterise the place. 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Avant-garde experiments in photography, text, design, and printing, within the context of a growing modernist publishing scene, contributed to an outpouring of brilliantly designed books. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMaking Strange\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers a detailed examination of photobook innovation in France, exploring seminal publications by Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Pierre Jahan, William Klein, and Germaine Krull. Kim Sichel argues that these books both held a mirror to their time and created an unprecedented modernist visual language. Sichel provides an engaging analysis through the lens of materiality, emphasising the photobook as an object with which the viewer interacts haptically as well as visually. 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The sequence represents my intuitive response to individuals and their immediate environment. The work has never been seen, or published, but thankfully I kept the negatives, all of which were taken on a Hassleblad, which I borrowed from Derby School of Art. Under different circumstances there would have been more images but 120 roll film was expensive for a student living on a maintenance grant of £300 pa. \u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoger Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eCafé Royal Books, established in 2005, is a small family-run publisher based in England, focussing on documentary photography linked to Britain and Ireland, printed and bound locally by a small 170 year old printing company. In 2022 Café Royal Books received the Royal Photographic Society Award for Photographic Publishing.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.booksaboutart.co.uk\/collections\/cafe-royal-books\"\u003eView more \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCafé Royal Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Café Royal Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44173084721410,"sku":"BK-CRB-RTPL-001-H","price":5.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_5263_ec132173-6607-42e1-9cef-dc4987dc5943.jpg?v=1706014577"},{"product_id":"jan-greshoff-the-parade-cape-town-1960s-1970s-volume-1","title":"Jan Greshoff: The Parade, Cape Town 1960s-1970s. 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