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North Warning System
Volume 1. The British army used a system of high-tech watchtowers to survey the territories of Northern Ireland, and to observe the actions of the local people unter their occupation. These towers, constructed in the mid 1980s, primarily in the mountainous border region of South Armagh, were landmarks in a thirty year conflict euphemistically called "the Troubles". The Towers were demolished between 2000 and 2007 as part of the British government "Demilitarization" program for Northern Ireland. Prior to their demolition Donovan Wylie photographed the Towers, working at an elevated height made possible by military helicopter. -- Dust jacket.
Outposts
Serving alongside infantry and artillery, military engineers designed a network of outposts throughout Kandahar Province. Built on natural promontories with multiple lines of sight, they formed a protective visual architecture. These images are the latest phase in Wylie's interrogation of the architecture of modern conflict.
Donovan Wylie: the Tower Series
The British army used a system of high-tech watchtowers to survey the territories of Northern Ireland, and to observe the actions of the local people unter their occupation. These towers, constructed in the mid 1980s, primarily in the mountainous border region of South Armagh, were landmarks in a thirty year conflict euphemistically called "the Troubles". The Towers were demolished between 2000 and 2007 as part of the British government "Demilitarization" program for Northern Ireland. Prior to their demolition Donovan Wylie photographed the Towers, working at an elevated height made possible by military helicopter.--Dust jacket
Donovan Wylie
This is the latest of Donovan Wylie's books with Steidl that explore the architecture of the Northern Ireland confl ict. While Wylie's earlier publications including British Watchtowers and Maze (on Belfast's Maze prison) document disappearing military structures, Housing Plans for the Future focuses on the legacy of architectural contain- ment in urban areas today. Wylie took these photos during walks through a number of social- housing neighborhoods in inner-city Belfast, which look eerily similar. While the built environments at fi rst appear benign, even mundane, sustained looking reveals how they purposely control vision and movement. Walls block vehicle access, houses are inverted to face away from neighboring communities and minimize potential antago- nism, and excessive street lighting ensures visibility in what Wylie calls "a prison of sorts ... a completely thought-through system of social control." These defensive structures, built in the 1970s and '80s and still populated today, are a powerful and largely unrecognized legacy of the Northern Ireland confl ict.
The Dispossessed
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British Watchtowers
The British army used a system of high-tech watchtowers to survey the territories of Northern Ireland, and to observe the actions of the local people unter their occupation. These towers, constructed in the mid 1980s, primarily in the mountainous border region of South Armagh, were landmarks in a thirty year conflict euphemistically called "the Troubles". The Towers were demolished between 2000 and 2007 as part of the British government "Demilitarization" program for Northern Ireland. Prior to their demolition Donovan Wylie photographed the Towers, working at an elevated height made possible by military helicopter.--Dust jacket.
Maze
For nearly 30 years, the Maze prison, ten miles outside Belfast, played a unique role in the Northern Ireland troubles. This book of photographs documents the physical structure of the place and gives the viewer some experience of the psychological impact of being inside the Maze.
Magnum Ireland
Available for the first time in an updated, compact paperback format, this book offers a stunning photographic survey of Ireland over the last seven decades, from the 1950s to the present day. Organized decade by decade, the images show the lingering influence of rural life in the 1950s; the hidden story of ordinary Irish men and women, living in a divided society during the troubled years of the sectarian conflict; the South's huge economic growth at the end of 1990s, baptised the 'Celtic Tiger', and Ireland's perpetual quest for identity, from the 1950s to the present day. Each decade is commented on by a notable contemporary Irish literary figure: Anthony Cronin, Nuala O'Faolain, Eamonn McCann, Fintan O'Toole, Colm Tóibín and Anne Enright invite the reader to dive into the social and political context of each period, providing a textual backdrop to the photographers' work.
Magnum Magnum
Presents more than four hundred photographs taken by the photograhers of Magnum Photos.
Facing Britain
A fascinating glimpse into Britain's rich documentary traditions This comprehensive view of an overlooked subject brings together leading postwar British documentary photographers, including Mike Abrahams, Meredith Andrews, Rachel Louise Brown, John Davies, Ken Grant, Daniel Meadows, Roy Mehta, Peter Mitchell, David Moore, Tish Murtha, John Myers, Martin Parr and many more.
