{"id":2359,"date":"2009-12-28T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T12:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2010-01-04T12:38:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T12:38:18","slug":"something-old-something-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/12\/28\/something-old-something-new\/","title":{"rendered":"SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in today&#8217;s The Guardian, <a title=\"Something Old, Something New by Sean O'Hagan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2009\/dec\/28\/photography-books-2009\" target=\"_blank\">Sean O&#8217;Hagan<\/a> selects his favourite photography books of the year, which include We English.<\/p>\n<p>He writes: &#8220;Closer to home, the English were the subjects of two intriguing books:<a title=\" Simon Roberts's We English (Chris Boot, \u00c2\u00a340)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisboot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Simon Roberts&#8217;s We English (Chris Boot, \u00c2\u00a340)<\/a> and <a title=\"Chris Steele-Perkins's England, My England (Nothumbria Press \u00c2\u00a330)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.northumbria.ac.uk\/sd\/central\/its\/uni_press\/catalogue\/ap\/england\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Steele-Perkins&#8217;s<strong> <\/strong>England, My England (Nothumbria Press, \u00c2\u00a330)<\/a>. Roberts&#8217; book is a kind of gentle celebration, its images captured on a large-format 5&#215;4-inch camera and owing as much to the English landscape painting tradition as any photographic precedent. It&#8217;s a grower. Steele-Perkins, a Magnum veteran, opts for a more sweeping documentary approach that shows the English at work and at play over the last four decades. By turns gritty and evocative, it is a book one imagines that Orwell would have liked very much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2360\" title=\"Picture 1\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-1.png 652w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-1-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in today&#8217;s The Guardian, Sean O&#8217;Hagan selects his favourite photography books of the year, which include We English. He writes: &#8220;Closer to home, the English were the subjects of two intriguing books: Simon Roberts&#8217;s We English (Chris Boot, \u00c2\u00a340) and Chris Steele-Perkins&#8217;s England, My England (Nothumbria Press, \u00c2\u00a330). Roberts&#8217; book is a kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/2364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}