Description
Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd [Published Date: 1993]. Soft cover, 159 pp. First edition.
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In very good condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers have light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. [From back cover] Since the development of photography in the middle of the last century, the picture of our pasts provided by the written chronicle, the museum artefact or by failing memory has been augmented by the most vivid and immediate relic of former times, the photograph. Authenticating even as it describes, the photograph is of its time in a way that other representations of the past are not. This photographic portrait of a period at once familiar and remote illustrates the more recent history of a district still dotted with the works of prehistoric man. the district whose ancient name embraces the wild moors, the quiet valleys and rugged coastline between St Ives and Sennen. Tourism has been an important feature of Penwith throughout the period covered by these photographs, but the selection does not overlook the very significant contributions of farming, fishing and horticulture and. more remotely, of mining and quarrying. The lure of the Land's End. though, has attracted visitors for over 150 years and its mystical fascination was, apparently, as powerful an influence at the time of the first photographs as it is today. Comprising the work of both professionals and gifted amateurs, this fascinating selection draws almost entirely on the collections of the Penzance and District Museum and Art Gallery. For those who can still remember, it offers a trip down memory lane; for others, it will be a voyage of discovery.