Covent Garden
The Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Markets
By (photographer) Clive Boursnell Introduction by Peter Ackroyd
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Online price: £20.00
This title is currently availableHardback, 168pp Published: 12th June 2008 Category: Photographs: collections  |
My heart sank at first. Oh god, not another picture book about a picturesque corner of London, especially over-hyped Covent Garden. Then it leapt right back up. How wrong I was. Very rapidly I became absolutely absorbed. Now I am recommending it effusively to anyone who will listen. This is not only a fascinating book, it is an act of photographic salvage and a very valuable historic record.
- Design Week
What is remarkable about his photographs is that the routine acts of life - the shouting, the smoking, the errands and conversations of the market traders and their customers - are revealed as being full of grace, drama, humour and surprise, as though the Covent Garden street market were a stage and its occupants all actors, orators and dancers.
- Times
Clive Boursnell's photo-essay documents the end of an era and stands as a memorial to a vanished part of London life.
- Ham & High
The magic of the old Covent Garden Market is evoked through Peter Ackroyd's introduction and Clive Boursnell's marvellous photographs, taken over the course of numerous and extended visits to Covent Garden in the 1960s and 1970s. The book includes a preface by Clive Boursnell and the words of some of the market people whom the photographer interviewed at the time. There will be an exhibition of Clive Boursnell's photographs of Covent Garden to coincide with publication.
168 pages
150 colour photographs
