Roger A. Deakins: Byways

ISBN-13:	9788862087513
Publisher:	Damiani
Publication date:	11/30/2021
Pages:	168
Sales rank:	173,005
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 12.20(h) x 0.70(d)

Portraits and landscapes from the cinematographer famed for his work with Sam Mendes and the Coen brothersThis 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 It includes previously unpublished black-and-white photographs spanning five decades, from 1971 to the present.After graduating from college Deakins spent a year photographing life in rural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.