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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> IN THE SUMMER before he died, Norman Eales, photographer, part-time painter, car buff, penfriend and Marine reserve, went to Italy with his partner John Kelly and wrote to a friend: "Venice - heaven! A mahogany launch to meet us, white slip covers with blue piping. In the hotel (the Danieli) the linen sheets are changed daily. White, white towels and robes the size of football fields. Perfect cherries and apricots on gold-rimmed plates. Silver service and heavy damask. Lemon-water finger bowls. Outside the tall windows Venice sits - or scurries by - and we are 'hit' by every painting. At Harry's Bar I sat between an ageing Monica Vitti and James Coburn. Ah, the Bellinis. Medici lips on all the youths in alleyways. Heady stuff. If this is dying one should do it more often." A painterly eye, a journalist's sense of place, sensuality, an iron will and a strong work ethic are the qualities that took Norman, who left school at 15, out of the East End and up West to Vogue.