Bibliography

Aberglasney 1995


Bibliographical Details and Influences:

When I began this project in 1995/96 I did not realize just how much of my time it would take up. The actuality of photographing the houses only makes up a small proportion of the time. The rest of the time is spent researching, locating and planning the trips to the houses. I have used many, many books as reference but poor planning on my behalf meant I did not always write down the sources of much of the information included on this website. (Almost, perhaps, unforgivable since I've spent four years a student and a further ten years working in academic libraries!) I now intend to do this, although it may take some time to find all my reference sources. I have also included other books by particular photographers’ who have influenced me. I urge you to seek out the works of these photographers, their individual styles are always in the forefront of my mind when I am taking photographs.


Bibliography:

Books
The Lost Houses of Wales – Thomas Lloyd
The Companion Guide to South Wales – Elizabeth Beazley & Peter Howell
The Companion Guide to North Wales - Elizabeth Beazley & Peter Howell
Forgotten Welsh Houses – Michael Tree & Mark Baker
Houses of the Welsh Countryside – Peter Smith
Glamorgan – The Greater Houses - The Royal Commission
Peterwell – Bethan Phillips
About Aberpergwm - Elizabeth F. Belcham
Peacocks in Paradise – Elisabeth Inglis-Jones
Shell Guides to Wales series
Tours in Wales 1811 – Richard Fenton
Wild Wales – George Borrows
A Tour in Wales – Thomas Pennant
Good Men and True - Erwyd Howells
Ordinance Survey Pathfinder & Landranger series maps

Pevesner Architectural Guides: The Building of Wales Series. (complete list below)

Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion - Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield
Clwyd, - Edward Hubbard
Glamorgan - John Newman
Gwent/Monmouthshire - John Newman
Gwynedd - Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker
Pembrokeshire - Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield
Powys - Richard Haslam

Influences:

The Daybooks of Edward Weston
Aaron Siskind; Pleasures and Terrors - Carl Chiarenza
Ghosts Along The Mississippi - Clarence John Laughlin
The Idea of Louis Sullivan - John Szarkowski
Industrial Facades - Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher

Websites

information to follow...



Equipment used:

All photographs taken using Wista 5x4inch field camera with
75mm, 90mm, 135mm, 150mm, 180mm and 210mm Schnieder and Rodenstock lenses.
Printed on De Vere and LPL5451 enlargers.
Ilford film used and processed using Ilford and Kentmere papers.


Thanks

A special thanks must go to the manufacturers of Kentmere Photographic Papers for part sponsoring me on and off for the last 10 years.

A further thanks also to all those people who have emailed and written suggesting potential sites and those people who have given directions whilst I have been out searching for these properties. And, of course, to those who have sent either via email or hard copy images of houses that have been long demolished or properties I simply had no idea existed.



Blaen Blodau 2009


Llanstinan House 2009


Beudiau, Ceredigon 2009


Road to Nanteos 2009