Glasgow

A terrific treat, some great images of this beautiful city, and it’s people. I read a few dubious reviews here who reflected on some images being printed quite dark.Once you understand how the photographer made the images with beautiful slow Kodachrome 64 on a Leica Reflex you can get a greater appreciation how some of the old imposing architecture had that deep dark saturated look. I’m not sure but the book scans may even have come from original cibachrome prints.Overall this is probably the best value I’ve gotten in a photo book in years. Brilliant price.

The photographs in this are excellent, with scenes from a long-gone Glasgow looking like they were just taken yesterday.However, the composition of the book seems lazy, with photos displayed out of order, random blank pages and, worst of all, no information on where each picture was taken. I appreciate that it is supposed to be art rather than nostalgia, but a bit of context would have been nice.Even the author of the foreword is of little assistance, as he states the subject of the book is Govan and Maryhill, but most of the pictures I could identify were of Dennistoun and the city centre.I think I'd pay for a companion piece telling me where each photograph was taken...

A great item.

A beautifully shot collection of photos from an 80’s Glasgow before it got onto its feet and out of such a depressive state.

It is hardy surprising that the originaI client did not go to publication and it took 30 plus years for the images to see the light of day. I was born in Glasgow so perhaps I'm somewhat biased but I found the book very dark and not just the subject matter and lack of balance. Mr.Depardon appears to have used Kodachrome 64 exposing it at 80asa, which was a legitimate practice in order to give greater color intensity, It does however make the images dark in some publications. In addition there are restricted locations and images that are virtually repeated, eg. the two little girls pushing a pram through the ruble strewn street- three images. Perhaps this is down to poor editing but surely there were more images to chose from. I know for example that for the "A day in the of" series the photographers were give 50 rolls of film to shoot in 24 hours so was there a shortage of film or time to shoot? And what happened to the captions? Sorry, but in my humble opinion a poor publication. Regards, John.

A gloriously brutal body of documentary work of a time and space.

This book was a present for my son, who studies photography in Ghent. Up till now this is one of his -and mine too- favourite books. This is Photography, with a capital P.

Was given as a gift which was well received then everyone spent ages looking through it and discussing the photographs