The recent query about Cyprus led me to check into my files
There was an interesting book about Cyprus as it was in in 1954 published a
few years ago in the UK [Only 1 copy is listed in WorldCat]
The author has now issued a new, updated edition with more photographs
This was the original :
*Chamberlain, Richard. Cyprus Scenes and Way of Life in 1954 .
* UKCollective Colour, 2010. 1st UK Edition. ISBN: 095656190X.
In 1954 Richard Chamberlain and his
twin brother were conscripted into the British Army and sent off for duty
in Cyprus.The teenager has never before been outside England. He took an
old 127 camera and " As soon as we arrived I started photographing the
Cypriot people and way of life," ….The pictures taken more than 50 years
ago on black and white film, exert a strong nostalgic pull....most potent
of all is the evocation of a lost era. The photographs tell of a way of
life less frenetic than today, when people had time to stop and chat and
the pretty beaches hadn't fully been exploited by developers. Significant
changes in society hadn't yet fully manifested themselves, either - though
they were on the way and would all too quickly have an impact. In 1954, the
beautiful island was still a single entity...
And here is the updated version:
*Chamberlain, Richard. Cyprus Scenes and Way of Life in 1954 and 60 years
later in 2014. *UK: Collective Colour, 2014. 1st UK Edition. Soft Cover.
New Book from Publisher This book is the second edition of Richard
Chamberlain's collection of photos taken in 1954/55 while serving as a
National Serviceman. He has returned to Cyprus to revisit the same
locations, where possible, and to photograph the same scenes he saw 60
years before. The earlier pictures were taken around Famagusta in Northern
Cyprus before the island was partitioned in 1974. This paperback edition is
both black and white and colour.
You can see a YouTube video about an exhibit of his delightful pictures
here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7DJugIpVSg
June S
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