ARCHITECTURE IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND: 600-1500.By Lucy Archer with photographs by Edwin Smith Edwin Smith may refer to:
This beautiful thoughtful book is the personal product of a collaborative empathy between Lucy Archer, daughter of sensitive architect, Raymond Erith Raymond Erith (1904-1973) was an English architect known for his restorations and work in a traditional styles. Critic Ian Nairn described his work as "genuinely Georgian, not 'neo'"[1]. He formed the partnership Erith & Terry with his pupil Quinlan Terry. , on whom she published an outstanding monograph in 1985, and the late Edwin Smith, a most subtle and distinguished architectural photographer. Smith's widow, Olive Cook, contributes a valuable Foreword explaining his near religious dedication to a task which he saw as 'worshipping with the eye' and 'offering the praise of my humble craft'. The 352 black and white photographs were mostly taken with a half-plate bellows camera in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows. See under Bellows. See also: Bellows Camera made by Thornton Pickard in 1904, requiring a tripod, black cloth, and exposures as long as 15 minutes. Taken in the '50s and '60s when there were fewer cars and tourists than now, arid no motorways, they speak of the deep silence then still widespread in the countryside, and are informed by an understanding of ancient crafts and local materials. Though relying exclusively on existing lighting conditions, Smith was master of light, gravitating to those building parts where the light source lay diagonally in front of him and not behind. A startling star·tle v. star·tled, star·tling, star·tles v.tr. 1. To cause to make a quick involuntary movement or start. 2. To alarm, frighten, or surprise suddenly. See Synonyms at frighten. image shows Salisbury nave at high level from behind a glossy black Purbeck marble Purbeck Marble, or Purbeck Stone, is a hard semi-metamorphosed limestone, formed of shells of freshwater and brackish snails, which can be seen in cut slabs. The stone takes its name from the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsular in the English county of Dorset, where it is found. column and capital which dominate the foreground. Published as first of three volumes, it has a text by Lucy Archer including accounts of the structure of English social and religious life in the Middle Ages, a 128pp gazetteer gazetteer (găz'ĭtēr`), dictionary or encyclopedia listing alphabetically the names of places, political divisions, and physical features of the earth and giving some information about each. with mans, an illustrated glossary and a bibliography. |
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