mcmullin:liverpool
McMullin: architectural photographer.
Architectural images
JUST PUBLISHED
Liverpool The Great City showcases the resurgence of the port as a tourist, leisure, shopping and educational place. Visitors to the city arrive curious about the birthplace of the Mersey Sound, the home of the Beatles, the old staging post to the New World, the arrival port for wartime Atlantic convoys, to see the city th at boasts two important cathedrals or two top-flight soccer teams – a wide variety of reasons. They invariably depart surprised by the breadth and beauty of the city architecture, the magnificent waterfront skyline and, more recently, the quality of the shopping. Liverpool The Great City provides an overview of the city, a treasured keepsake, a wonderful present for a family member or perhaps those who no longer live in the area and are curious to see how it is changing.The images are brand new, some deliberately taken just days before the book went to press. A small selection, however, are echoes of the past and show the Albert Dock before it was refurbished to become one of the most visited attractions in the whole of the UK. All are presented in a large format hardback that does justice to both the quality and importance of the photographs and of the city itself.Paul McMullin is a commercial architectural photographer born, raised and based in Liverpool. His work has taken him all over the world on a variety of projects in the Far and Middle East, Africa and America. He is driven by the pursuit of perfection in all his photography and has spent many months, seeking the quality of light that defines his award-winning style. This involved many early dawns, late nights and hours waiting for the light and clouds to be just right.
Mike McNamee is the editor of the photography magazine, Professional Imagemaker and began collaborating with Paul McMullin on features concerned with architectural and panoramic images. He lives and works on the Wirral, in New Brighton, and so has the best view of the Liverpool Waterfront on a daily basis. He has thus been following the emergence of the city and its skyline for more than 50 years.
Imprint: Halsgrove. ISBN 978 1 84114 949 3, hardback, 238x258mm, 144 pages. Published september 2009. David Littlefield is the author, John Wiley & Co are the publishers - Paul McMullin is the principal photographer.
A small selection of the images used are in Gallery two (20 images)
This book tells the story of this Herculean project, its origins, its design and its delivery.
Liverpool is one of the most famous trading cities in the world. The view of its Pier Head with the Liver Building has become iconic: it has been called the second city of the British Empire and in the 1930s it became the model for Shanghai's Bund. The city suffered a slow decline in the latter half of the 20th century; industries closed or moved away, postwar architecture was mostly mediocre and the city's population fell as citizens sought employment further afield. Local people even began to shop elsewhere. As Manchester's star ascended in the late 1990s, the heart of Liverpool was in danger of becoming economically inconsequential. In 1999, the city council set out a challenge for international developers as part of an ambitious initiative to reverse this trend and encourage people to visit, live in and invest in Liverpool once again. The vision was for a reimagined and extended city centre, one that rethought the vast and under-used space between the principal shopping area and the city's historic docks. Forty-seven developers expressed an interest and, after a rigorous selection process, the job went to Grosvenor. The result is a 42-acre transformation, a mixed-use, retail-led development that embodies both contemporary urban design thinking and a deep sensitivity to ideas of place, identity and scale. Containing more than 30 individually designed buildings including department stores, a bus station, apartments, hotels and a five acre park , this complex project was completed within an ambitious timetable to exceptionally high-quality thresholds. Grosvenor, and its 26 firms of architects, have created an entirely new, but uniquely Liverpudlian, urban district.
Liverpool One:
As principal photographer for the 'Liverpool One: Remaking a City Centre' book commissioned by the Grosvenor Development Group. This gallery contains the front cover image and a selection of images from various chapters. The 256 page hardback book by author David Littlefield is on sale now from all leading bookstores.
Albert Dock: Back in the 70's with a borrowed Mamiya C330 twin lens 6x6 camera there were opportunities to access the abandoned and derelict Albert Dock complex. Shooting on transparency film with available light only.
Limited to an edition of just 25 each with two artists proofs, and printed to a size of 55cm square (overall framed size is 79x79cm) embossed. signed and numbered reverso. These images are a unique record of the Liverpool Albert Dock before any redevelopment.
Liverpool
Modern images from around Liverpool, made within the last 18 months. (not entirely architectural however!!) All images are for sale for use in advertising, brochures or as framed prints for office decoration.
Aerial Liverpool Images of the redeveloped waterfront, Albert Dock, Kings Dock and Cathedrals. 24th May 2009.
"Quality is never an accident, it is always the result of intelligent effort." -- John Ruskin (1819-1900)
This site is Liverpool specific.
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All Images within this site (except in the Liverpool One Gallery ) are available as editioned Giclee prints at various sizes and are also available for brochure and advertising use.
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