A Woman's World, 1850–1960
$49.75
- Hardcover
432 pages
- Release Date
12 November 2022
Summary
A Woman’s World, 1850-1960 explores the many roles—domestic, social, cultural, and professional—played by women across the world before second-wave feminism took hold. Using Marina Amaral’s colourized images and Dan Jones’s words, this survey features women both celebrated and ordinary, whether in the science lab or protesting on the streets, performing on stage or fighting in the trenches, running for election or exploring the wild. This vivid and unique history brings to life, in full colou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781800240247 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1800240244 |
| Author: | Dan Jones, Marina Amaral |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Apollo |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 12 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 1.67kg |
| Dimensions: | 6mm x 196mm x 246mm |
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Critics Review
Every bit as fascinating and revelatory as its predecessors. Jones’s text is authoritative and witty, but the main appeal lies in Amaral’s delicate colourisation of photographs, bringing subjects including Frida Kahlo back to life… This fine book is a moving testament to the power of social change * Observer *
[These] striking images offer a new window on to fascinating, inspiring lives * History Revealed *
Transform[s] them into people you feel you could meet today, making their stories all the more fascinating * Waitrose Magazine
A beautiful thing to keep on your coffee table or bookshelf. 5 * All About History *
PRAISE FOR DAN JONES AND MARINA AMARAL:
‘I have long considered colourisation sacrilege… after reading this book, I’ve changed my mind’ The Times, on The Colour of Time.
‘Amaral’s colourisation process is most moving when applied to pictures of children. To see it more as the photographer saw it, and the way it actually was. The photographer might not have had the choice, or the technology, to take a picture in colour. But looking through the viewfinder, that’s what they saw; the past – even its grimmest, darkest hours – was not in black and white’ Guardian, on The World Aflame.
‘There is something of The Wizard of Oz about Marina Amaral’s photographs. She whisks us from black-and-white Kansas to shimmering Technicolor Oz… When you see Amaral’s coloured portraits, you think: phwoar!… She changes the way we see a period or a person’ Spectator, on The Colour of Time.
’[Amaral] breathes new life, immediacy and human connection into black-and-white pictures. Even familiar shots are transformed in a breathtaking way’
Dan Jones
Dan Jones is a historian, broadcaster and award-winning journalist. His books, including The Templars, Crusaders and, with Marina Amaral, The Colour of Time and The World Aflame, have sold more than one million copies worldwide.
Marina Amaral is a talented digital colourist. Her work has featured on the BBC and in the Evening Standard, Washington Post and Le Figaro and she has collaborated with the History Channel, PBS, English Heritage and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. In 2021, Marina was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List.
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