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Aberfan : The Days after - A Journey in Pictures by I. C. Rapoport (2005, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherParthian Books
ISBN-10190263862X
ISBN-139781902638621
eBay Product ID (ePID)28038687020
Product Key Features
Number of Pages142 Pages
LanguageEng,Wel
Publication NameAberfan : the Days After-A Journey in Pictures
Publication Year2005
SubjectSociology / General, Europe / Great Britain / Wales, History, Disasters & Disaster Relief, Customs & Traditions, Photoessays & Documentaries
FeaturesLimited Edition
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Photography, History
AuthorI. C. Rapoport
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight33.2 Oz
Item Length11 in
Item Width11 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2005-472438
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsThe book opens with an introduction by the photographer and is closed with an insightful afterword by Dr. Jeni Williams. I.C.Rapoports sensitive photographs are beautifully judged, high quality images, they do not shock but seek to suggest lives beyond their representations. The figures they commemorate are allowed the dignity of being people rather than victims. As social history, they construct a narrative of development that is ultimately positive even though some of the individual images are so delicately, tragically moving. These pictures show, not only the community in its devastation again not as victims- but in its social and historical particularity. The interiors, the clothes, the miners going underground, the woman holding a baby in a shawl: all these are part of something lost also. ******************************"I arrived in Aberfan on the 29th of October, 1966, eight days later. The village was hostile ground; sad, angry, wet and cold, half of it still covered in grime from the tips fallen slurry. I took up residence above the Macintosh Pub in an unheated third floor garret with a two small windows that looked immediately upon the site of the tragedy. I didnt know any of the villagers but I was about meet most of them, and to document their shock and grief and the stirrings of life after so much loss. I left Aberfan on Christmas Day 19666 never to forget the events I witnessed, the faces I studied of decent people, their stories and to their sorrow."
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal704.9495513070942975
Edition DescriptionLimited
SynopsisFull of sensitive photographs that do not shock but seek to suggest lives beyond their representations, this pictorial journey commemorates figures with the dignity of being people rather than victims. As social history, they construct a narrative of development that is ultimately positive even though some of the individual images are so delicately, tragically moving. These pictures show the community not only in its devastation but also in its social and historical particularity. The interiors, the clothes, the miners going underground, the woman holding a baby in a shawlall paint a portrait of something lost.", A fascinating collection of sensitive photographs commemorating the dignity of the people of Aberfan and life in the town following the tragedy of 1966; including an introduction by the photographer and an afterword by Dr Jeni Williams. First published in April 2005.
LC Classification NumberDA745.A167R37 2005
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