The Hebrides

Gus Wylie is one of the most well known photographers to have spent time recording life in the Hebrides during the 1970's and 80's. His black and white shots are a seminal record of the changing life in the islands during this period.

The photographs within this book were almost exclusively taken between the summers of 1974 and 1975 when the author felt that life on the Islands would become indelibly changed. In his preface Wylie states " my role... was not to undertake a prejudiced or slanted approach ... but rather to direct my energies toward making a record over a period of twelve months that might, in some small way, provide the basis of an overall image or portrait of the region in the latter half of the twentieth century."

In his notes ( on page 160) the author provides details of the cameras used to produce his images but at the same time emphasising that the content and framing of the images was more important than the mechanics of the cameras themselves.

This is a large book with 148 black and white plates.

Gus Wylie was born in Lowestoft in Suffolk in 1935 but was evacuated to East Fife during WW2 and received a primary education in Anstruther from 1940-45.

He studied painting at The Royal College of Art from 1957-60 eventually turning to photography where he became Senior lecturer in Photography at the Polytechnic of Central London.

He published three books of Hebridean photographs.

A good copy of this 1st edition with an original albeit price clipped dustcover. The cover does have some wear and tear around the edges and a small taped repair. There are some tiny scratches to the gloss of the cover (see image). Inside the book is clean and bright throughout with maps of the islands as end pages.

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