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London Rising: Illicit Photos from the City's Heights Bradley L. Garrett

London Rising: Illicit Photos from the City's Heights By Bradley L. Garrett

London Rising: Illicit Photos from the City's Heights by Bradley L. Garrett


$17.99
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Summary

In this book, an intrepid crew of urban explorers shares dizzying photos and stories collected while journeying up, over and into the London skyline.

London Rising: Illicit Photos from the City's Heights Summary

London Rising: Illicit Photos from the City's Heights by Bradley L. Garrett

Over the course of seven years, a well-respected team of adventurers has embarked on scores of not-quite-legal investigations inside, below, and above the city's hidden infrastructures. Their first book published by Prestel, Subterranean London: Cracking the Capital, took readers under the city. Now, they reveal the results of their expeditions scaling the city's heights. Jaw-dropping photographs offer extraordinary views from vantage points that most of us will never reach. Divided into thematic chapters, the book offers personal accounts of various excursions, including travels up freestanding masts, pylons, and chimneys; the tops of public spaces such as the Barbican Centre and the British Museum; voyeuristic glimpses over the rooftop gardens of the rich and famous; and the heights of London starchitecture: the Gherkin, the Shard, and the Walkie-Talkie. Each chapter includes a new artwork by illustrator Lizzie Mary Cullen, who specializes in urban psycho-cartography. This London urban exploration crew's exploits in procuring these photos have received extensive coverage in the worldwide press.Readers will enjoy these indefatigable explorers' quest to make their native city both known and accessible to anyone who shares their curiosity.

London Rising: Illicit Photos from the City's Heights Reviews

From gritty, aging gasholders to lavish corporate developments, the book re-imagines the city both as it now stands and as it could one day become. --TIME

About Bradley L. Garrett

Bradley L. Garrett is a social geographer at the University of Southampton. Alexander Moss is a photographer, writer, curator and editor based in Northeast London. Scott Cadman is a photographer, bike courier and celebrated London explorer. Lizzie Mary Cullen is an award-winning illustrator and visual artist.

Additional information

GOR007715800
9783791381947
3791381946
London Rising: Illicit Photos from the City's Heights by Bradley L. Garrett
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Prestel
20160225
176
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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