Wallace MacAskill Book

The following background of Wallace MacAskill comes from MacAskill, Seascapes and Sailing Ships, published in 1987 by Nimbus Publishing Limited. It contains 128 pages of gorgeous photos, all strictly black and white. I purchased my copy in 2000 from amazon.co.uk. (This forward is a little dull, but the next pages are fascinating.)

Forward by Sherman Hines:
The style of any art is usually more significant historically than any particular artist working in that style at any specific time. There are, however, some artists working in the style who redifine its terms and limitations. W.R. MacAskill was just such an artist.
He possessed that drive and curiosity which transforms itself into greatness. Always willing to extend the search for that third dimension of emotion and sensitivity, it was through the adaptation of a soft-focus portrait lens to his style of photography that we have been given some of his most emotional statements of life and the sea. MacAskill images are not just a documentation of his time, culture and subjects; they transcend that. Each image is a clear, precise non-ambiguous statement reflecting his innermost feelings and thoughts. HIs best images evoke an even greater dimension of thought in the viewer: a snese o fbeing there; being a small part of a greater expanse. The viewer senses that MacAskill was a man who worked free of compromise in his life and did not succumb to the prujudice of existing pictorial photography.
W.R. MacAskill set the benchmark for nautical pictorial photography thus far in this century. His perception and ability to see both composition and light have given him a rightful place in history. More...

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