Description

Introduction by Tom Sharpe.

Sign Language is a marvellously zany yet haunting collection of photographs from a young photographer who has an instinctive eye for the unusual and the eccentric in the world around her.

Travelling from the West Country to Northumberland, Caroline Fitton has recorded an array of funny, enigmatic and wonderfully decorative signs, shop fronts and façades, recalling a past where the pawn shop and the friendly society helped keep the bailiff from the door, or a present where President Reagan's hearing aid might bring customers flocking. Her photographs capture the decline in the inner cities and a variety of architectural styles, from the solid respectability of the Victorian era through the flamboyant art deco of the thirties to the puristic high tech of the present day.

Hers is a faded and somewhat shabby England, but one where an irrepressible humour and optimism shine through. The combination of a dry and witty introduction from Tom Sharpe, himself an accomplished photographer, and Caroline Fitton's own vivid images is guaranteed to provoke laughter and to invoke nostalgia for a world which is fast disappearing.

Whatever else the British may have lost, Miss Fitton's photographs deny us pessimism. Hope springs, until it is bulldozed, eternal in the back streets.'

Tom Sharpe

Note alle condizioni del volume
Usato ottime condizioni, segni di uso e del tempo. (T-CA)

Autore/i Caroline Fitton
Editore Andre Deutsch Luogo London
Anno 1987 Pagine 96
Dimensioni 20x22x0,5 (cm) Illustrazioni ill. a colori e b/n n.t. - colors and b/w ills
Legatura bross. ill. a colori - paperback Conservazione Usato ottime condizioni - used very good
Lingua Inglese - English text Peso 300 (gr)
ISBN 0233981640 EAN-13 9780233981642