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Nigel A Ibbotson has been photographing Yorkshire for the past 30 years and this is a familiar collection of all of the city’s most iconic sights. So expect to see images of the usual city centre hotspots, from Millennium Square to the Town Hall, not to mention locales a bit further afield - Elland Road, Roundhay Park, Harewood House et al.
Ibbotson’s notes on both architecture and our city’s long and illustrious heritage make nice footnotes but aren’t particularly insightful, instead leaving the images to make the most impact, with nice sections on parks, churches and statues. With this in mind, it would maybe have been better if the book was a little larger than A5, giving Ibbotson’s pictures room to breathe, and given the nature of our city, choosing days which weren’t so overcast might have been an idea. None of this is particularly groundbreaking, but it is always nice to see our city in all its visual glory, and our unique landscape of both old and new.
By Nigel A Ibbotson, Breedon Books, RRP £14.99
Posted on Wednesday 22nd July 2009
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