Roger A. Deakins: Byways Hardcover – November 30, 2021 by Roger A. Deakins

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Author: Deakins Roger A.

Package Dimensions: 0x0x788

Number Of Pages: 168

Release Date: 30-11-2021

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Portraits and landscapes from the cinematographer famed for his work with Sam Mendes and the Coen brothers
This is the first monograph by the legendary Oscar-winning cinematographer Sir Roger A. Deakins (born 1949), best known for his collaborations with directors such as the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes and Denis Villeneuve. It includes previously unpublished black-and-white photographs spanning five decades, from 1971 to the present.After graduating from college Deakins spent a year photographing life in rural North Devon, in Southwest England, on a commission for the Beaford Arts Centre; these images are gathered here for the first time and attest to a keenly ironic English sensibility, while also documenting a vanished postwar Britain. A second suite of images expresses Deakins’ love of the seaside. Traveling for his cinematic work has allowed Deakins to photograph landscapes all over the world; in this third group of images, that same irony remains evident.

Review

It may be the purest distillation of Deakins’s vision―stark, plaintive, and reverent of land and light―we ever get. — Taylor Dafoe ―
Artnet

He has a real knack for situating people or other objects (like the crosses in that image) within space. It’s meant as a compliment to both Deakins the photographer and Deakins the cinematographer to say that so many of these images could be mistaken for film stills. — Mark Feeney ―
Boston Globe

Quintessentially poignant in grainy shades of greys, Deakins’ photography evokes a simultaneous sensibility of dreamy surrealism and hardened human nature. — Sunny Sunday ―
Provokr