Landscape in Italy - Hardcover

Sims, John Ferro

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851452354 ISBN 13: 9781851452354

Publisher: M. Joseph, 1989

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Shows Italy's lakes, shores, farmlands, vinyards, towns, mountains, forests, valleys, and ruins

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From Library Journal:

While these two breathtaking books are alike in capturing landscape, they are as different as night and day. Thoughtful commentary sets the tone for the visual feast offered in Landscape in Italy . Traveling off the main roads from Tuscany to Sicily and Sardinia to bring life to the greens, mauves, ochers, and yellows of the surrounding mountainsides and valleys, Sims photographs in glorious color an Italy that few tourists will ever see. Facing photographs are carefully arranged to complement each other in style, form, and theme. A true romantic quality is found within the covers of this book. In The Spirit of England , McBride takes the reader on a journey through the English countryside from Cornwall to Northumberland. Rather than offering insight into the forthcoming visual tour, Winston Graham's foreword is almost incidental. Each photograph has a distinct quality, with soft, muted color tones emphasizing Britain's extremes in atmospheric conditions, and with photographs clustered by region, readers are given a sense of place. Both books are worthy of purchase by most public libraries and academic libraries that emphasize photography.
- Stephen Allan Patrick, East Tennessee State Univ. Lib., Johnson City
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

This collection of 130 expertly composed color photographs offers a wide variety of tersely captioned images of the Italian countryside--from the impressionistic, foggy outline of the Dolomite mountains and Chianti's vineyards in an early evening glow to an ancient Sicilian necropolis. We see "peculiar rock formations" in Sardinia, a field of Tuscan sunflowers, rows of poplars in the Po delta and "olive trees in a field of crimson-flowered fodder," in Puglia. The volume is nicely designed; the mainly postcard-sized photos, framed by a thin black line and a generous white border, are occasionally interrupted by double-page spreads. St. Aubin de Teran's ( The Slow Train to Milan ) smooth text rambles throughout the country, touching on personal memories of Italy and its people and discusses historical points of interest, well complementing freelance photographer Sims's fine pictures.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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