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is one of the hottest photography books out this year; and since Paul Smith has designed a limited run of 500 fabric covers, it just got a whole lot more exciting. But the interesting thing here is the equally mad impression created of Victorian life, too: drunks propping up mahogany bars with brass fittings, street artists with performing cats, Edgar Scamell’s portraits of the starving homeless and blissed out opium takers hanging out down the docks.
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is one of the hottest photography books out this year; and since Paul Smith has designed a limited run of 500 fabric covers, it just got a whole lot more exciting. But the interesting thing here is the equally mad impression created of Victorian life, too: drunks propping up mahogany bars with brass fittings, street artists with performing cats, Edgar Scamell’s portraits of the starving homeless and blissed out opium takers hanging out down the docks. All conveniently ignored by the clientele of the Great Exhibition and its Crystal Palace of course, which, as a temporary fixture that cost tax payers a sizeable sum of money, was the nineteenth century equivalent of this here Olympic site. Not much has changed, is the interesting message told between the 18th century map on the books inside front cover and Sohei Nishino’s devastating photo map at the end. St. Paul’s stands in the background of a thousand portraits, all under a hue of the city’s signature brown fog. The Profumo Affair embroiling Christine Keeler (famously captured by Lewis Morley) is replaced by Leveson and kids getting on it for the Queen’s coronation grow old to prop up the cake-stand at the Golden Jubilee Street Party. Yet somewhere in all of that is a message that is well worth the book’s considerable weight in paper: here is a place that has shaped the course of history and continues to be the one of the most exciting cities around. Seldom sunny, often wry, this air-brush-free portrait of our troubled old friend London is one that we implore you - occupants of her nether regions and beyond - to snap-up and keep hold of forever."— Dazed Digital, London, Royaume-Uni
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is one of the hottest photography books out this year; and since Paul Smith has designed a limited run of 500 fabric covers, it just got a whole lot more exciting. But the interesting thing here is the equally mad impression created of Victorian life, too: drunks propping up mahogany bars with brass fittings, street artists with performing cats, Edgar Scamell’s portraits of the starving homeless and blissed out opium takers hanging out down the docks. All conveniently ignored by the clientele of the Great Exhibition and its Crystal Palace of course, which, as a temporary fixture that cost tax payers a sizeable sum of money, was the nineteenth century equivalent of this here Olympic site. Not much has changed, is the interesting message told between the 18th century map on the books inside front cover and Sohei Nishino’s devastating photo map at the end. St. Paul’s stands in the background of a thousand portraits, all under a hue of the city’s signature brown fog. The Profumo Affair embroiling Christine Keeler (famously captured by Lewis Morley) is replaced by Leveson and kids getting on it for the Queen’s coronation grow old to prop up the cake-stand at the Golden Jubilee Street Party. Yet somewhere in all of that is a message that is well worth the book’s considerable weight in paper: here is a place that has shaped the course of history and continues to be the one of the most exciting cities around. Seldom sunny, often wry, this air-brush-free portrait of our troubled old friend London is one that we implore you - occupants of her nether regions and beyond - to snap-up and keep hold of forever."— Dazed Digital, London, Großbritannien
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is one of the hottest photography books out this year; and since Paul Smith has designed a limited run of 500 fabric covers, it just got a whole lot more exciting. But the interesting thing here is the equally mad impression created of Victorian life, too: drunks propping up mahogany bars with brass fittings, street artists with performing cats, Edgar Scamell’s portraits of the starving homeless and blissed out opium takers hanging out down the docks. All conveniently ignored by the clientele of the Great Exhibition and its Crystal Palace of course, which, as a temporary fixture that cost tax payers a sizeable sum of money, was the nineteenth century equivalent of this here Olympic site. Not much has changed, is the interesting message told between the 18th century map on the books inside front cover and Sohei Nishino’s devastating photo map at the end. St. Paul’s stands in the background of a thousand portraits, all under a hue of the city’s signature brown fog. The Profumo Affair embroiling Christine Keeler (famously captured by Lewis Morley) is replaced by Leveson and kids getting on it for the Queen’s coronation grow old to prop up the cake-stand at the Golden Jubilee Street Party. Yet somewhere in all of that is a message that is well worth the book’s considerable weight in paper: here is a place that has shaped the course of history and continues to be the one of the most exciting cities around. Seldom sunny, often wry, this air-brush-free portrait of our troubled old friend London is one that we implore you - occupants of her nether regions and beyond - to snap-up and keep hold of forever."— Dazed Digital, London, Reino Unido
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