Winterreise

By Luc Delahaye

Book Overview

This is a compelling, sad and beautiful road story: Luc Delahaye, photographer and melancholy storyteller, travels in winter across the dark landscape of Russia, where he takes an intimate look into... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714839973
• ISBN13: 9780714839974
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

one of a kind ... a masterpiece .

This one little book is worth more, than tons of paper waste you'll find nowdays on shelves of "Photography" section in mainstream bookshops.

An amazingly accurate picture of Russia today.

Everyone has seen the Russia of fairytales in storied picture books, but Luc Delahaye seems to be the first photographer to cut through the glossy exterior of a time long gone by to show the Russia of today. I've spent nearly 5 years in this country and get chills when looking through this book as it reminds me of so many images I saw first-hand here. My own journals from my time here don't even come close to Luc Delahaye's depiction of what more than 70 years of a system gone wrong can do to a society.

Tragic poem

A simple, small book without compromise. Intensely personal, it seems that Delahaye has photographed not with conscious thought, but with simple feeling. It is the most honest photography book for me since The Americans, and Delahaye's birch tree closing sequence is the saddest letdown and most pefect ending to a photo book i have ever seen.

A great piece of work

Certainly the best work on Russia in years. A must.

in a word..incredible

I have never seen a photography book where every picture has been perfection - absoultely fascinating. The colors, the cropping the layout is truly incredible. I am amazing and moved by every image. If you are looking for a gift for someone who likes photography, this is amazing. it is all natural light and the subject matter is depresing, but the pitcures are so incredible, you will look at it over and over again. hightly recommended