BYWAYS. Photographs by Roger A Deakins

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So, I thought instead of creating a book of exclusively seaside photographs, why not include images from other places? With Byways already receiving rave reviews since its August release, many are eager to discover whether another book will follow.

I take a lot of photographs when I’m shooting movies too, but they are usually location or light references,” he adds.All limited-edition and sale items or where items are noted in the product description are final - no exchanges no refund. THE ART OF OBSERVATION Sir Roger Deakins CBE BSC ASC has published Byways, his first collection of photographs. Thoughtful, poetic, and profoundly arresting, they display his distinct enigmatic sensibility, and presented for the most part with little or no information or context (index aside) form a compelling visual soliloquy that conveys with great eloquence, the profound power of the still image. Byways includes previously unpublished black-and-white photographs spanning five decades, from 1971 to the present. It’s meant as a compliment to both Deakins the photographer and Deakins the cinematographer to say that so many of these images could be mistaken for film stills.

After graduating from college, Roger spent a year photographing life in rural North Devon on a commission for the Beaford Arts Centre; these images attest to a keenly ironic English sensibility, and also serve as a record of a time and place of vanished post-war Britain. The book's third - and final - collection is of landscapes photographed all over the world while traveling for his cinematic work, in which that same irony remains evident". This is the book of quiet moments by someone who has the ability to capture scenes that make my heart rush.A Beautiful Mind", "Skyfall", "Sicario", "Blade Runner 2049", and "1917" - the last two of which earned him Academy Awards".

His work includes the films 1917, Blade Runner 2049, Skyfall, No Country for Old Men, A Beautiful Mind, O Brother, Where Art Thou? This is one of the main reasons I was particularly drawn to this book, as I was born and raised in Devon, and it's wonderful to see how it is documented through Roger Deakins' eyes. Deakins talks about why he gravitates to black and white photography, the inspiration for his book and shares his thoughts on iPhone photography.He has been nominated for an Oscar 15 times and won the award twice for the films Blade Runner 2049 and 1917. His career accolades also include two Independent Spirit Awards, numerous critics’ awards, and the Career Achievement Award from the National Board of Review.

With black-and-white images, the viewer looks at the content and the composition of the light more than anything else. Renowned for his collaborations with some of the most distinguished directors of our time, Deakins has, over the years, bestowed his unique vision on such celebrated titles as The Shawshank Redemption , Fargo , A Beautiful Mind , Skyfall , Blade Runner 2049 , and 1917 . However, for Deakins, photography has often been a solitary endeavor, an antidote to the ‘enjoyable’ yet intensely collaborative process of working on films. Join Oscar-winning Make-up Effects artist Howard Berger and veteran film journalist Marshall Julius for a book signing of their new publication Masters of Make-up Effects: A Century of Practical Magic.

There is, however, a keen sense of light and line and how a scene can go beyond its simple components to become resonant. I had toyed with the idea of doing a book exclusively on the seaside of Southwest England because I spend a lot of time there, and I grew up there and I love it. I guess I was brought up admiring the great photographers who worked in black and white, and when I started doing it myself just the processing of color and printing was complicated so I think that pushed me down the avenue of doing black and white. BYWAYS is a new monograph, featuring the still photography of Oscar-winning cinematographer, Roger Deakins.