Alan Powers
Author
Publisher
Artifice
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Hastings/De Wolfe rekindles our appreciation for individual urban elements: articulating his analysis through disparate themes: from the more obvious: 'streets', 'advertising' and 'pedestrian network', to typically idiosyncratic ones: 'Defensive armour', 'constipation', 'toughies' and 'sissies' and 'all creeping things'. The photographs evoke the Italy of Fellini's films, making it a forgotten classic of travel and photographic publishing whose lessons...