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About the Author
John Phibbs is a renowned garden historian with more than 30 years' experience in the management and restoration of historic landscapes. He is the author of Capability Brown: Designing the English Landscape. Joe Cornish is an award-winning landscape photographer and an honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, with a studio and gallery in Yorkshire, England.
Reviews
"The organizing idea of the book is straightforward -to pair photographs of the existing landscapes with the drawings and plans Repton made for them. Cornish's photographs are not simply illustrative. They bring out the rich strangeness of the English landscape features, and his eye attends to the details of light, shadow, and texture that we don't often see in staid landscape photography of great houses. Educated as a gentleman farm - er rather than a landscape gar dener, Repton avoided specific details or instructions for his designs, Phibbs says, preferring to focus on the site context, and it is in this that he has had the most influence on the Ameri - can landscape. In Frederick Law Olmsted, a Repton admirer, we see the next expression of Repton's ideas of the character of the 'situation,' as he called it. Olmsted derives some understanding of the importance of the spirit of the place as a generative force from Repton, an idea we have recently come back to after a long time away." -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE
Book Information
ISBN 9780847863549
Author John Phibbs
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Rizzoli International Publications
Publisher Rizzoli International Publications