Thames & Hudson /
Imperial War Museum 2005
by Malcolm Brown
270 x 247mm 208pp
Seventy years on from Lawrence's death, this visual biography takes us into the mind of a man of extraordinary energy, ability and charisma who seemed to have everything in his hands only to throw it away in an obsessive quest for anonymity and sanctuary. Using Lawrences own photos and haunting paintings by the likes of Eric Kennington, Augustus John, David Bomberg and William Roberts this tells the story in words and pictures in a dynamic, almost cinematic way. The book accompanied the major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum and shed new light on this enigmatic, contradictory and troubled man - a character of universal appeal who lived on the edge of all that he did.