The Lost Album
A Visual History of 1950s Britain
 | Authors: By Basil Hyman Imprint: Booth-Clibborn Editions ISBN: 1-86154-320-4 EAN: 9781861543202 Availability: In Stock Publishing Date: 3/1/2011 Trim Size: 9 1/2 x 11 7/8 Page Count: 300 Cover: Hardcover with jacket Illustrations: 300 full-color and black-and-white illustrations, 7 facsimile inserts | Price:
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About the book
Basil Hyman, a keen amateur photographer, took hundreds of photographs of everyday life in Britain during the 1950s. The Lost Album is a nostalgic look back at this long-gone era, filled with photographs made during a time of enormous social change--just after World War II and before the "Swinging Sixties"--and a wealth of ephemera: theater tickets and playbills, newspaper advertisements, ration books, and much more. Special inserts include actual facsimiles of some of these now-obscure items--talismans from a slower time, when formality, pride, and courtesy prevailed.
There are special sections on two major events: the Festival of Britain in 1951, and the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. With brief, lively introductions and captions, this is a captivating snapshot of how people lived and played in Britain in those years.
About the author
Basil Hyman is the author, with Steven Braggs, of
The G-Plan Revolution. He is the third generation of a family that has been in the furniture business since the 1920s, and has taken photographs all his life.