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Collected Photographs of Dame Freya Stark
Dame Freya Stark will be best remembered as a traveller who wrote brilliantly on Eastern subjects. Her love for words comes through strongly in her clear, precise prose, which is at the same time always full of colour and lively atmosphere.
The 202 photographs in Rivers of Time represent an alternative means by which Dame Freya recorded her life and journeys. Her innate sense of form and composition in space is revealed i this selection made from thousands of photographs taken with the rare miniature 35mm Leica camera which she used since 1933.
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An excellent large format book presenting a selection of the photos from Freya Stark's extensive travels. Some of these have been reproduced in her famous books, others are not previously published. Her portraits are incredible (obviously her models are too), and her photographs of towns and buildings are often spectacular., her landscapes sublime. There are few duds here, and even those probably tell a story we are not privy to.
An excellent introduction by Alexander Maitland outlines Stark's life and travels in a few short pages, otherwise there are just simple captions telling us the location and the year, sometimes a minor elaboration.
4 stars.
