Fowles J. Lyme Regis Camera

Little, Brown & Co, 1991. — 100 p.Old photographs depict the quaint corners and local characters of the English seaport and resort town, and trace its development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.It sometimes seems, at least in this century, that everyone who came to Lyme attempted to photograph it. though seldom with much artistic success. This was hardly the would-be Cartier-Bressons' Fault Lyme, with its wild coasts, so open southwards to the sea, may seem very charming in the mind, but in harsh reality it is heavily loaded against the camera. Outside the Cobb it is painfully short of imposing monuments. It almost completely lacks picturesque houses.