The Gentle Author's London Album

Author: Gentle Author
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957656918
Category : East End (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Between the covers of this album you will discover a prime selection of the Gentle Author's favourite pictures of London, setting the wonders of our modern metropolis against the pictorial delights of the ancient city, and celebrating the infinite variety of life in the capital. This is London seen from an easterly direction - as the centre of gravity in the city has shifted, the Gengle Author of Spitalfields Life has amassed a wealth of extraordinary pictures of London with a special emphasis upon the East End.

London Underground

Author: David Ashford
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1846318599
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
In London Underground, David Ashford sets out to chart one of the strangest—as well as most familiar—spaces in London: its famed underground rail system. Providing an account of the evolution of this archetypal modern environment, he sees the underground as the first space to complete the slow process of our estrangement from natural landscape. For Ashford, it is, as Marc Augé has called it, a nonplace, a way to traverse an invisible landscape through the medium of signs and maps. Surveying an impressive diversity of materials, from the Victorian triple-decker novel to modernist art, pop music, and graffiti, Ashford combines cultural history with spatial theory to tell a story of how people have attempted to make a home in the sometimes bizarre spaces of the modern world.

Central Line Series

Author: Charlotte Bonham Carter
Publisher: Black Dog Pub Limited
ISBN: 9781907317903
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
Documents the ambitious programme of temporary commissions that took place along the London Underground's Central line from 2011 to 2012. Artworks featured take the theme of 'communication' as a starting point to explore ideas around interaction, engagement and exchange, in the context of the Central line, and specific locations along the line.

The Tube Mapper Project

Author: Luke Agbaimoni
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780750994378
Category : Commuters
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A visual exploration of the London Tube network, focusing on our shared and overlooked moments of recognition

London Clay

Author: Tom Chivers
Publisher: Bantam Press
ISBN: 9781529176711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
__________________ London Clay explores the hidden layers that make up this city. Armed with just his tattered Streetfinder map, Chivers leads his reader down forgotten waterways into abandoned catacombs and buried stations, exploring the nooks and crannies of a forgotten city. His network of journeys combine together to produce a compelling interrogation of London's past. In a route that covers much of his own personal history, this is a bold exploration of the city's secrets and asks us also to consider important questions about its future.

Bob Dylan in London

Author: K G Miles
Publisher: McNidder & Grace
ISBN: 0857162152
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
'A must have for Dylan enthusiasts, lovers of London, and anyone with even a passing interest in the history of music. I devoured it in two sittings - and I loved it!' Conor McPherson, playwright, Girl from the North Country This is both a guide and history on the impact of London on Dylan, and the lasting legacy of Bob Dylan on the London music scene. Bob Dylan in London celebrates this journey, and allows readers to experience his London and follow in his footsteps to places such as the King and Queen pub (the first venue that Dylan performed at in London), the Savoy hotel and Camden Town. This book explores the key London places and times that helped to create one of the greatest of all popular musicians, Bob Dylan.

Underground

Author: Bob Mazzer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957656932
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
While working as projectionish in a porn cinema in the 1980s, Bob Mazzer began photographing on the tube during his daily commute, creating irresistibly joyous pictures alive with humour and humanity. His pictures are published here for the first time.

Keep It Together!

Author: Rich Deakin
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1900486997
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
This is the remarkable story of London’s communal bands of the 1960s and 1970s, from the perspective of two of its most crucial exponents. Fuelled by amphetamine psychosis, the DEVIANTS and PINK FAIRIES were bands of the people, gate crashing festivals and playing for free on a flatbed truck, and on some days sharing a bill with Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead. KEEP IT TOGETHER! tells of the underground movement that was key in shaping a London that had been swinging but was quickly moving toward more brutish territory. It is a tale that includes the Pretty Things, Hawkwind, MC5, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Edgar Broughton Band, Motörhead and a host of other influential bands and pilled up geezers desperate for a revolution. Or at the very least, Top of the Pops.

London Underground in Colour Since 1955

Author: John Scott Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780711037007
Category : Subways
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
As London Underground celebrates its 150th anniversary, this stunning colour album provides a pictorial journey through its growth and development in the years since 1955, with photographs that have never been published before.

Country Boy

Author: Derek Watts
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786482955
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
Best known for his unique musical style and blindingly fast hybrid picking technique, English guitarist Albert Lee is often referred to within the music industry as the "guitar player's guitar player," renowned for his work across several genres of music and for the respect that he has garnered from other industry giants. This comprehensive biography tells the entire story of Lee's long career and personal experiences, beginning with his upbringing in south London and his early experimentations with skiffle music (the British equivalent of American rockabilly). It covers Lee's career in Chris Farlowe's Thunderbirds and the British rock and country group Heads, Hands, and Feet, his move to the United States in the 1970s and his subsequent work with Eric Clapton, the Crickets, Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band, the Everly Brothers, and, more recently, with Bill Wyman and with Hogan's Heroes. Lee's career is set against the background of changes in popular music and shows how he, as a British artist with nomadic Romany roots, has influenced traditionally "American" musical genres. The work includes 66 photographs, many from Lee's personal collection, two appendices, and an extensive bibliography.