The book consists of 120 black and white photographs, along with a text written by Fay Godwin. We now have a landscape under threat and this book aims to combine a powerful aesthetic sense of the landscape with a deep political commitment. The book covers the whole of the British Isles from Land's End to the Highlands of Scotland. "Forbidden Land" examines in detail the ownership of land. It also explores the abuse of land by the Ministry of Defence and by developers. Fay Godwin focusses particularly on the battles in West Cornwall where Patrick Heron has fought to retain the land covenanted to the National Trust 30 years ago, as well as forestry in the flow country, the English Heritage's management of Stonehenge, the access to land owned by the National Trust, the illegal closure of rights of way by the military as well as particular stories in East Anglia, the Peak District and Scotland.

Our Forbidden Land

Godwin, Fay

Travel

RANDOM HOUSE UK

These photographs reveal not only the seaside resorts and clifftop walks we all know, but they also depict the more dramatic and remote stretches of coast that are relatively inaccessible. The pictures are more than studies of empty landscape, for they reveal man's essential and natural affinity with the land, and nowhere is this more poignantly apparent than at the interface between rock and water, terra firma and the tidal ocean.

The Edge of the Land

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

A collection of b&w photographs celebrating the British landscape, with accompanying text by novelist John Fowles.

Land (Signed and Numbered)

FOWLES, John.

Little,Brown & Co

Remains of Elmet: A Pennine Sequence

Literature & Fiction

HUGHES,TED

History & Criticism

Faber and Faber Ltd.

Romney Marsh

Wildwood House

Bison at Chalk Farm and other snaps

Routledge& Kegan Paul

The Oldest Road : Exploration of the Ridgeway

Anderson, J. R. L.

Whittet Books Ltd

The whiskey roads of Scotland

COOPER, Derek

J. Norman & Hobhouse

Secret Forest of Dean

Introduction By Edna Healey

Redcliffe Press Ltd; Arnolfini Gallery; The Forestry Commission

Landmarks celebrates the work of Fay Godwin, one of the UK’s most respected and influential photographers. Drawing on the whole body of her photographic practice, it includes literary portraits, humorous snapshots, and rural and urban landscapes, as well as the intimate series of color images, Glassworks, that marks the most recent evolution of her vision. Leading poet and novelist, Simon Armitage introduces the work, and an essay by photographic historian Roger Taylor explores and illuminates both her career and her approach to photography.
Godwin’s early work includes a significant body of intimate and revealing literary portraits of writers and poets including Philip Larkin, Saul Bellow, Robert Lowell, Salman Rushdie, Günter Grass and Ted Hughes, with whom she later worked collaboratively on the book Elmet, a dialogue between poet and photographer.
Fay Godwin is however best known for her landscape work, through which she reveals the rich and intricate patterning of the British landscape and its relationship to the people who live and work there. Author, or co-author, of seventeen books, she has a reputation as a committed environmentalist and has been President of the British Ramblers Association. Her work has also been recognised through Fellowships at the National Museum of Photography and the Royal Photographic Society and her work is held by major galleries including The National Portrait Gallery, The Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, and the National Museum of Photography in the UK and the Bibliothéque Nationale, France, and Stanford Museum of Art, U.S.A.

Landmarks

Armitage, SImon

Taylor, Roger

Dewi Lewis Publishing

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