SYDNEY SANDSTONE  
  GARY DEIRMENDJIAN  
 

 

 

  
  ABOUT:  
 

 

SYDNEY SANDSTONE is essentially a photographic book, providing an intimate portrait of Sydney's own buiding medium ...

see PDF for the Author's Introduction from SYDNEY SANDSTONE

 

  
  PUBLISHER's NOTE:  
 

 

"Scattered throughout Sydney is a plethora of 19th and early 20th century sandstone architecture, hewn from the city's foundations. This series of superb colour photographs of these historical works is accompanied by essays written by prominent Australians who deliver related content from their unique professional perspectives."

 
  CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS - in order of chapters:  
 

 

TIM FLANNERY

SHIRLEY FITZGERALD

PHILIP COX

JAMES BROADBENT

[also DEBBY CRAMER - commissioned wiritng on masons]

see PDF for their respective bios

 

  
 

 

  
  BOOK DETAILS:  
 

 

title: SYDNEY SANDSTONE

author: GARY DEIRMENDJIAN

ISBN: 1 877004 09 X

format: hard cover with jacket

pages: 144 pp

images: 211 plates in colour [all images by the Author]

dimensions: 265 x 235mm

publisher: CRAFTSMAN HOUSE

published/released in Australia: June 2002

cover & book design: JESSICA COTTERELL; based on conception by GRAHAM RENDOTH

printed: TIEN WAH PRESS, Singapore

 

  
     
 

 

 

 

  
  images from SYDNEY SANDSTONE [now in the CITY OF SYDNEY Collection] continue to appear regularly on CBD hoardings: