Bøger af David Hurn

Magnum photographer David Hurn is one of the world‿s most influential photographers. He covered the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, and was at Aberfan in 1966. He has shot iconic portraits of The Beatles, Hollywood stars such as Sean Connery and Jane Fonda, and leading figures across the arts, politics, science, and sport. During the seventies he established the acclaimed School of Documentary Photography at Newport. Throughout his life, he has worked tirelessly to document and interpret his homeland. His current project, Wales: The Land, is a definitive portrait of the landscape of Wales. The work collects a lifetime of material from David, with accompanying text from Richard King, author of Brittle With Relics (Faber, 2022). Representing the interface between the landscape of Wales and human intervention in it, the book is celebratory in tone, whilst also exploring attitudes towards the landscape and how it is used to represent Wales to the Welsh and to others.

A diaristic compendium of Hurn's digital missives, spanning his momentous 60-year careerMagnum's David Hurn (born 1934) is one of Britain's most influential documentary photographers, noted for his portrayal of ordinary people in their everyday lives. In 2016, Hurn started an Instagram account to share photography tidbits: technical tips, book recommendations, exhibitions and work that he found interesting. His engagement with the app has become progressively intimate, as evinced in his reflections on photographs from his 60-year career and his own mortality. On his feed, scrollers can find photographs from the Hungarian revolution in 1956, the set of the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night in 1964, trips to Arizona in the 1970s and '90s as well as Halloween celebrations in his local Welsh village during the pandemic.This compendium collates these individual posts from the past seven years, underscoring Hurn's generosity as a teacher and his willingness to authentically share his course as a photographer.

This collection of 100 duotone portraits of the people who shape contemporary Wales contains the responses each subject had to a set of short questions about the notion of Welshness. Political devolution, a new economy, and the resurgence of the Welsh language are among several factors discussed by authors, artists, historians, and social commentators.