An intersting article in the Guardian this morning about the solace of photobooks: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/feb/24/teju-cole-photobooks-fernweh. I am not familiar with Tegu Coles’s work but I am at least aware of his recent book, Fernweh, although I have not seen a copy.

What struck me first is how our tastes overlap. Masahisa Fukase’s Ravens and Robert Frank’s The Americans are there on my shelves. So is Rinko Kawauchi’s Illuminance. I have also of late found myself looking a lot at her Ametsuchi and The River Embraced Me.

It then got me thinking about what I have been looking at on a regular basis recently, apart from stuff directly relevant to the current part of this course (though some of these are). Here are some that I keep coming back to:

Matthew Genitempo – Jasper

Guido Guidi – 5 Architectures, and the most recent Lunario

Daido Moriyama – Record

Provoke

Kazuma Obara – Exposure

Hiroshi Sugimoto – Seascapes

Alys Tomlinson – Ex Voto

(All of these have been referenced elsewhere apart from the latest Guidi so for now that is the only one that I will cite here.)

Guidi, G, (2020). Lunario. London: MACK

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