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London Chris Boot Ltd 2009 1st Edition Hardcover New. No dust jacket as issued First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated, paper-covered boards; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and commentary by Simon Roberts. Essay by Stephen Daniels. Unpaginated, with 56 four-color plates. 11-3/4 x 14-1/2 inches. [Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume III. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2014)]. New in publisher's shrink wrap. From the publisher: "We English is the highly anticipated result of London-born photographer Simon Roberts' year-long journey around England. With his wife and daughter, Roberts caravanned around his country, documenting its landscapes, both natural and social, with a large format 4 x 5 camera. 'There is no such thing as a definitive set of images that encapsulate Englishness, ' Roberts has said; 'We English is about social landscapes but it is not about social or political analysis. It does not seek to define but simply to represent. ' Roberts, who was born in 1974, is informed by the photography of predecessors such as Tony Ray-Jones, John Davies and Martin Parr, by the Romantic tradition of English landscape painting, and--notably--by the paintings of Pieter Brueghel and L.S. Lowry. Roberts merges these influences with his own impulses, depicting the English at leisure in bucolic settings in a manner that is all his own, resulting in a work that is beautiful, accessible and heartwarming. We ...