E.O. Hoppé | England

England, 1926
(German edition)

Picturesque Great Britain:
The Architecture and the Landscape
(British edition)

England

One of the most beautiful photographic presentations of Britain, these two volumes, identical for their 300 gravure-plate photographs, chronicle topographical views of the British Isles. Each has their introductory text translated to the language of their respective markets. The term “Picturesque,” as used in the title of this book, seems old fashioned today, but in 1926 such description invited the audience to see artistic views of urban and country landscape. Hoppé’s picture-making is what we now know as “Modernist.” Some of the characterizing aspects of this approach are found in the visualization of his subject both as subject matter, that is, what the picture is of, and as the two-dimensional geometric composition of its form intended as an abstraction of shapes.

High Street, In Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire 1925	Glasgow, 1925	Derby Street, Buxton Derbyshire 1925	Fountain Abbey Yorkshire, 1935
Butterwalk, Totnes Devon, 1925	Norwich Cathedral Norfolk, 1925	The Cloisters Gloucester Cathedral 1925	Abbey, petrol pumps Glastonbury, Somerset 1925
Ely Cathedral Cambridgeshire, 1925	An Essex Landscape c.1925	Old Bridge Sterling, Scotland 1925	Earthwalls Framlingham Castle Suffolk, 1925
Grand Canal Near Glondalkin, Ireland 1926	View of Exeter Devonshire, 1925	The Canal Manchester, Lancashire 1925	The Harbour Aberdeen, Scotland 1925
Cammell Laird's Yards Midlands, c.1926	Northumberland Newcastle, 1925	Northumberland Newcastle, 1925	The Castle, Edinburgh Scotland, 1925
St Patrick's Cathdredral Dublin, Ireland, 1926	The Royal Crescent Bath, Somerset, 1925	Aberdeen, Scotland 1925	Canongate with Tollbooth Edinburgh, Scotland 1925
Aberdeen, Scotland 1925	Windmill Near Wroxham Norfolk, 1925	Ben More, Scotland 1925