A Time We Knew: Images of Yesterday in the Basque Homeland (Basque Series)

William Albert Allard & Robert Laxalt

ISBN 10: 0874171571 / ISBN 13: 9780874171570

Published by Univ of Nevada Pr, 1990

About this Item

Signed & inscribed by William Albert Allard to the previous owner on the half title page. Signed card laid. Hardbound in dust jacket. Minor fading to dust jacket spine edge. Wear to dust jacket edges, otherwise very good.

Seller Inventory # 92272

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Time We Knew: Images of Yesterday in the Basque Homeland (Basque Series)
• Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874171571
• ISBN 13: 9780874171570
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography
  • Signed / Inscribed

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Synopsis

Book by Laxalt, Robert

Reviews

For two months in 1967, Allard, an American, visited the Basque homeland in the Pyrenee Mountains between France and Spain, photographing a peasant culture that has since given way to technological progress. He was aided by Laxalt, a native of the region, who here depicts in poetic vignettes the Basques as they then were. The brief text combines with 70 color photos to create a spellbinding flow of words and images: a young shepherd displays a preference for solitude as he unsmilingly extends hospitality to visitors; modern-day bards tell stories and speak their emotions through song; villagers participate in the weekly market. Solemn elderly people and curious children gaze into the camera but young adults are conspicuously absent, suggesting that simple Basque life cannot compete with the lure of money and the metropolis. Allard's photographs glow and, with the text, form a prepossessing volume that allows a poignant glimpse of a vanished lifestyle.
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