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Through an extraordinary selection from the Beken Marine Photography Archive of the work of four generations of famous photographers (the Beken family), this book retraces the fundamental stages of the evolution of the unsurpassable 'Beken style', bringing together some of the most artistic images of sailboats ever shot. These wonderful and legendary pictures, accompanied by detailed texts and plentiful information, will lead the reader through time, to discover the wonderful world of yachting photography.
The Bekens began their love affair with marine photography in 1888, when Alfred Edward (1855-1915) moved from Canterbury (Kent) to the Isle of Wight with his son Frank (1880-1970). He purchased a pharmacy in Birmingham Road in the seaport of Cowes, a town that was already famous for international yacht racing and for the world's oldest regular regatta, the renowned Cowes Week. Alfred and young Frank started shooting photographs to capture sailing yachts at their best, and racing yachts in action, a real challenge at that time as it still is today. These beautiful photographs started being sold in the pharmacy as souvenirs, and in the space of a few years they would have caught the attention of the world of yacht racing and sailing aficionados, earning the Beken family a large number of followers all over the world for the extraordinary quality of their images.
Queen Victoria, King George V, and most recently the Duke of Edinburgh awarded the company a Royal Warrant for excellence. Frank's artistic inheritance was carried on by his son Keith (1914- 2007), who succeeded him in the creation of fantastic sailboats photographs. Today, Kenneth Beken (b. 1951, the fourth in the line of family photographers), together with yacht master Peter Mumford, is leading the way in the latest digital photography, and creating wonderful colour images: "Now that digital cameras and printers are as good as the traditional darkroom methods," he says, "the company has gone totally digital." Today the Beken Marine Photography Archive features more than 200,000 different photographs of incalculable value, from historical monochrome masterpieces to contemporary digital images of the highest quality and technical perfection.
Contents
FOREWORD by Kenneth Beken
INTRODUCTION by Bruno Cianci
AMERICA'S CUP YACHTS
GENESTA 1884
GALATEA 1885
PURITAN 1885
THISTLE - METEOR I 1887
VALKYRIE II 1893
VALKYRIE III 1895
DEFENDER 1895
COLUMBIA 1899
SHAMROCK I 1899
SHAMROCK II 1901
SHAMROCK IV 1914
THE 'J' FACTOR
BRITANNIA 1893
ASTRA 1928
CAMBRIA 1928
CANDIDA 1929
SHAMROCK V 1930
YANKEE 1930
VELSHEDA 1933
ENDEAVOUR 1934
ENDEAVOUR II 1936
THE GREAT OCEAN RACES
ILEX 1899
TUIGA - KISMET III 1909
JOLIE BRISE 1913
HALLOWE'EN 1926
DORADE 1930
PATIENCE 1931
EILEEN 1935
BLOODHOUND 1936
LATIFA 1936
VANITY V 1936
EILEAN 1937
TIMELESS CLASSICS
SATANITA 1893
METEOR II 1896
METEOR III 1902
SHAMROCK 23 m 1908
METEOR IV 1909
WESTWARD 1910
MARIQUITA 1911
LULWORTH 1920
MOONBEAM 1920
BLUENOSE 1921
CREOLE 1927
ALTAIR 1931
