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The Landscape

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McCullin selected the 70-odd works on view from some 60,000 negatives, and he personally printed all of them in his dark room at home. It’s all yours, no one can say you’re doing the wrong thing morally, there’s not a human being that can come up and say “Why are you taking my picture? McCullin’s West Country is not far removed from the East Anglia of Constable’s Dedham Vale two centuries earlier. His pictures were ‘mostly about beauty’, but McCullin says they taught him about ‘the dignity of photography’.

I couldn’t be happier than when I am standing out on a cold winter morning waiting for the right light. Often referring to the British countryside as his greatest salvation, McCullin demonstrates the full mastery of his medium with stark black and white images resonating with human emotion. Batcombe Vale 1992-93Having been evacuated to the safety of Somerset during the blitz, McCullin has had a lifelong connection with the open farmland and hill country of the south-west, feeling at peace within the solitude of the expansive landscape. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

The physical landscapes are not usually awesome in themselves but McCullin's treatment makes them inspiring subjects for us to enjoy. Oft sind es eher unspektakuläre, unscheinbare Motive (Landschaften in der Nähe des Wohnorts des Fotografen in der englischen Provinz), die durch die eingefangenen Lichtverhältnisse und die Wolkenformationen am Himmel atmosphärisch sehr dicht und reizvoll wirken. He has a lot of stories like this from his youth: the damp basement flat in which his family lived, which contributed to the early death of his asthmatic father; harsh schools with ‘sadistic’ teachers. Photographer Don McCullin has spent the last six decades traveling to remote locations and witnessing harrowing scenes of conflict and destruction. Guardian After a career spanning sixty years, Sir Don McCullin, once a witness to conflict across the globe, has become one of the great landscape photographers of our time.

He has documented Roman ruins in North Africa and the Levant, including the recent deliberate destruction of the ancient site of Palmyra in Syria by ISIS.The book also features landscape images from throughout his career taken in Syria, Iraq, Indonesia and India. This book brings together for the first time a collection of McCullin's landscape photography, primarily set against the stormy backdrop of Somerset, where he now resides. For more than 30 years, whenever he has had the time, he has walked up the hill and stood there with his camera waiting for the right moment to take a photograph. Because the light is pouring in here and it’s as if I’m being invited to go out there and pick up on it. He only stayed for a few years, but the landscape stuck with him, and years of travel eventually brought him back.

In the past, he has described the poverty he photographed in England as a ‘social war’, and to him the war is ongoing. McCullin has never had trouble motivating himself to work – he talks of photography choosing him, rather than the other way round – but just recently, he says, he has found his mind beginning to drift. The morning I arrive at McCullin’s old limestone farmhouse, where he lives with his wife Catherine Fairweather, he has been up since dawn, looking out at the valley beyond his front windows to see if the sky will change. The copy in near fine condition has some slight toning to extremities of pages and a minor soft bump to top right corner of front cover.They are things that neither glossy magazines during the heyday of print journalism nor the accolades showered on him by the British establishment can quite contain. For 60 years, he has reported on battles and destruction, chronicled starvation and inner-city poverty, and traveled the world working for newspapers including the Observer and the Sunday Times Magazine. McCullin evokes dramatic painterly representations of his home county with quiet confidence, shifting between the flooded lowlands of the Somerset levels to woodland streams, nearby monuments and historic hill forts.

The years of dodging bullets and photographing subjects on the move trained his eye to be quick, but this slower work hinges more on patience. McCullin has been taking landscape photographs since the 1990s, capturing scenes from across the United Kingdom, Europe, and Asia when not on assignment. The two years he spent in Somerset, however, left him with an ‘idyllic’ memory that he kept with him over the years and which eventually, in the mid 1980s, drew him back.

In part, he thinks, it’s because his body is starting to break down – he is strong for his age but becoming frail nonetheless: he suffers from arthritis, the darkroom chemicals are starting to make his chest wheeze – but it’s also an after-effect of the major retrospective he staged at Tate Britain last year. Seeking to convey the mysterious and mystical quality of the light in this part of the world, this evocative series presents us simultaneously with overwhelming beauty and reminds us of the fragility of our natural environment.



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