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THE LANDSCAPE - DON MCCULLIN GEBUNDEN

After a career spanning sixty years  Sir Don McCullin  once a witness to conflict across the
globe  has become one of the great landscape photographers of our time. McCullin's pastoral
view is far from idyllic. Though the woods and stream close to his house in Somerset have
offered some respite  he has not sought out the quiet corners of rural England. He is drawn 
instead  to the drama of approaching storms. He has an acute sense of how the emptiness of his
immediate landscape echoes a wider tone of disquiet. McCullin is based in the geographical
centre of southern England. The presence of sacred mounds  hill forts  ancient roads and the
nearby monuments of the prehistoric era have shaped his sense of nationhood. But down on the
Somerset Levels  he has tramped through the flooded lowlands. The imagery of his home county 
ravaged by storms  inevitably projects the associations of a battlefield  or  at least  the
views of one intimate with scenes of war. He is not alone in his preference for darkened clouds
over clear skies. McCullin's West Country is not far removed from the East Anglia of
Constable's Dedham Vale two centuries earlier. His knowledge of his historical predecessors
places him deep in a Romantic tradition. His experience as a traveller reinforces the sense of
a man on the edge of civilisation under siege. Nowhere is this more apparent than in his
repeated views of the glories of Palmyra and of the destruction of this ancient Syrian city.
The Landscape is the last in a long series of books published by Jonathan Cape  which
encompasses the entirety of McCullin's working life.

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