Future / Past

[See this picture at a larger size in the Dead Things section of the gallery]

Well, it's another in my occasional series of photos that don't work very well at web sizes...

As an early present to myself I've just got the new Graciela Iturbide book, Eyes To Fly With, I'm a huge fan of her work so I was really excited to hear about it, and I'm happy to report it lives up to my high expectations. If you're looking for somewhere to start with her though, I'd suggest the Aperture monograph Images of the Spirit, which is widely available and often very cheap. A side effect of the book was to get me thinking of matters Latin American, and hence some readers of this are probably going to find García Márquez novels in their Christmas stockings!

I'm sorta hoping for David Maisel's Oblivion in mine, although nowt is going to top my recently acquired Susan Burnstine print, to continue my lapse into dialect, dead chuffed about that!

I shall try to get in a posting before the end of December, so I'll leave off any ruminations about the year soon to pass for now. May yet have something to say about the platinum prints, and also some handmade postcard series I'm playing around with. For now though, all best festive wishes to everyone.

Westerly

From a very windy day up on the moors - posted because I thought I'd continue my (initially unintentional) recent trend of pictures with pathways leading through them...

I was lucky enough to find a reasonably priced copy of Rocky Schenck's Photographs recently - someone first pointed out to me by Susan because we had both taken pictures of the same spot in New Mexico (mine titled No Picnic, and Schenck's Picnic). Anyway, it's a great book, which pushes photos to the point of being abstract and painterly - the reference points being artists like Hopper and Munch, and a few shots looking like lost frames from Eraserhead...