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Simon Roberts - Pierdom Book Launch

Pierdom is the most comprehensive photographic record of British Pleasure Piers by a photographer for decades. Presented as a landscape format monograph all 58 surviving pleasure piers are represented along with a handful of lost piers and seascapes; photographs marking where a pier once stood.
"These pictures may encompass some of the seaside things we know best through such photographers as Tom Wood or Martin Parr, but they put those scenes in a broad context where people live in a landscape and a country, not just a car park.  They also derive something from that quite different tradition, of the wild skies and unquenchable nature that we find in Turner.  These are cool careful pictures, alluding to a large number of variables and seeing what balances can be struck between them.  At the same time, they're the warm record of a large number of trips to that many-sided and unfathomable place, the British seaside." Francis Hodgson, 2013
 
 
Simon Roberts - Pierdom Book Launch
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Simon Roberts - Pierdom Book Launch

Simon Roberts' Pierdom launches at Flowers Gallery alongside the publication of the monograph in September 2013.

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