In this book the poetic photographs of Mike St Maur Sheil show how nature turns the scars of war magically into flowering landscapes.
Michael St Maur Sheil
29,5 × 30,5 cm
256 pages
approx. 150 photos
English, French, Spanish
Hardcover, bound in linen,
„French Fold“-jacket
ISBN 978-3-903101-07-4
Juni 2016
€ 65.00
incl. 10% vat, excl. shipping
Free shipping to Austria and Germany
Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace 14-18 is a photographic odyssey through the lands of the First World War. Travelling from the dust of the Namib deserts to the frozen heights of the Vosges the Michael St Maur Sheil has created a unique collection of images which document how time and nature have transformed these places of horror and killing into landscapes of great beauty and tranquillity…
31 March 2017: "These Battlefields Were Devastated in World War I. See What They Look Like Today“
14 June 2016: "Strikingly, aerial images revealed the scars of trench lines and craters still clearly visible despite an overlay of bucolic verdancy. Nature, it seemed, had sought to soothe the physical wounds, but, like the landscape sculpted by the erstwhile fortifications, their memory could never be so easily erased."
Since the start in April 2014 of the exhibition project Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace, Mike St Maur Sheil’s pictures have been seen by over 11 million people in nine countries. read more
On 31 March 2017 a lot of people attended with great interest the opening reception of the travelling exhibition Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace: The Doughboys, 1917-1918 by Michael St Maur Sheil at World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, USA. The book Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace 1914 – 1918 to accompany the […] read more
„An extraordinary publisher that captures unsung stories and presents them without stereotypes or inhibitions,“ argued the international jury at the FEP Book Prize 2017. For the third time in a row Edition Lammerhuber was voted Best Publisher. read more
On 1 June 2016 the exhibition Fields of Battle – Lands of Peace: SOMME100 was opened in the City of London Guildhall Yard with an opening address by Prof. Sir Hew Strachan, the Professor of International relations at the University of St Andrews. read more
Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace 14-18 is a photographic odyssey through the lands of the First World War. Travelling from the dust of the Namib deserts to the frozen heights of the Vosges the Michael St Maur Sheil has created a unique collection of images which document how time and nature have transformed these places of horror and killing into landscapes of great beauty and tranquillity…
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