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A special edition of Deakins' first-ever monograph, reproduced in a limited run of 50, each including a signed and numbered print After graduating from college, British cinematographer Roger Deakins (born 1949) spent a year photographing life in rural North Devon, in Southwest England, on a commission for the Beaford Arts Centre; these images are gathered here and attest to a keenly ironic English sensibility, while also documenting a vanished postwar Britain. A second suite of images expresses Deakins' love of the seaside. Traveling for his cinematic work has allowed Deakins to photograph landscapes all over the world; in the third group of images, that same irony remains evident. This special edition, limited to just 50 copies, includes the monograph as well as a print signed and numbered by Deakins: The Joy of Flight, Teignmouth, 2000, 6 x 9 inches. Deakins' signature also figures on the bookplate applied to the front endpaper of the book.

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"Attests to a keenly ironic English sensibility, and also serves as a record of a time and place of vanished post-war Britain.-- ""L'Oeil de la Photographie"" His command of light and eye for composition is as evident in his snapshots as it is in his cinematography.--Chris Lindahl ""Indiewire"" Quintessentially poignant in grainy shades of greys, Deakins' photography evokes a simultaneous sensibility of dreamy surrealism and hardened human nature.--Sunny Sunday ""Provokr"" He has a real knack for situating people or other objects (like the crosses in that image) within space. It's meant as a compliment to both Deakins the photographer and Deakins the cinematographer to say that so many of these images could be mistaken for film stills.--Mark Feeney ""Boston Globe"" It may be the purest distillation of Deakins's vision--stark, plaintive, and reverent of land and light--we ever get.--Taylor Dafoe ""Artnet"""

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