The British

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Nick Danziger
The British: A Photographic Journey
Nick Danziger is one of the most acconriplished and original Iphotojournalists at work |n the world today - and one of the most iwidely travelled. In the last few years he has turned his attention {increasingly to the condition of Britain, starting with his most recent ¦book Danziger's Britain: A Journey to the Edge (1996). This hair-raising laccountof his journey among the excluded and marginalized people .of the United Kingdom proved as gripping and extraordinary as any of his famous travels in Asia; it was hailed by Pete Davies in the I Independent as 'so important that every one of us should read it and weep'.
Subsequently, Nick Danziger made several documentary films for Channel 4 which featured his black-and-white photographs. Two of these, Postcards from the Edge and The Establishment, sired many of the pictures used in this book. Combining intensity, intimacy, understanding, fly-on-the-wall uerismo and an exhilarating... Tovább

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Nick Danziger
The British: A Photographic Journey
Nick Danziger is one of the most acconriplished and original Iphotojournalists at work |n the world today - and one of the most iwidely travelled. In the last few years he has turned his attention {increasingly to the condition of Britain, starting with his most recent ¦book Danziger's Britain: A Journey to the Edge (1996). This hair-raising laccountof his journey among the excluded and marginalized people .of the United Kingdom proved as gripping and extraordinary as any of his famous travels in Asia; it was hailed by Pete Davies in the I Independent as 'so important that every one of us should read it and weep'.
Subsequently, Nick Danziger made several documentary films for Channel 4 which featured his black-and-white photographs. Two of these, Postcards from the Edge and The Establishment, sired many of the pictures used in this book. Combining intensity, intimacy, understanding, fly-on-the-wall uerismo and an exhilarating sense of pictorial composition, these images demonstrate a breathtaking
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In 1996 Nick Danziger's black-and-white photographs, a number of which are reproduced in his third book Danziger's Britain (his account of a journey among the marginalized people of Great Britain), were the subject of an exhibition which started at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television at Bradford and which then toured the uk, going on to form the basis of the highly-praised Channel 4 series Postcards from the Edge. (Danziger's next series for Channel 4, The Fight for Hearts and Minds, •was nominated for the Grierson Award. In 1997 he was also inominated for Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society, |and for bafta awards. In 2000 he received the Ness Award from the !Royal Geographical Society. Danziger has also made two further ^series for Channel 4- The Establishment and Out of Kosouo. He is Ipresently working on a film. Wages of War, for the bbc. Vissza