Following my post about my bibliography for the current course I have had another look across my shelves and made the following list of the other books I have looked at this year (most were only published this year) but have not otherwise had a direct impact on my work. There are others but these are the ones that stand out. What they all have in common is that they investigate, at one level or another, peoples’ relationship with particular places, peoples’ impact on those places, and those places’ impact on the people. As such the range of styles and approaches is quite wide. Some is street photography, but with more of a focus on people in their environment rather than just capturing chance happenings and encounters on the street. Some is social documentary, but firmly rooted in specific places and physical environments. Some concentrates on the landscape and the presence of people, and their relationship with the landscape, is more implicit. Some is more intimate, personal rather than public, and poetic. Some of the artists are already familiar to me, old favourites, others new. Not surprisingly there is a significant showing of Japanese photographers.
I also find that I have gone back from time to time to reread essays and stories by John Berger, too numerous to try to list now, that deal with peoples’ relationships with places. A writer always worth revisiting.
Becher, B, & H, (2020). Basic Forms. Munich: Prestel
Chikura, Y, (2020). Zaido. Göttingen: Steidl
Eskenazi, J, (2019). Black Garden. Brooklyn: Red Hook Editions
Eskenazi, J, (2019). Departure Lounge. Brooklyn: Red Hook Editions
Eskenazi, J, (2020). Wonderland. Brooklyn: Red Hook Editions
Guidi, G, (2011). Carlo Scarpa’s Tomba Brion. Ostfildern: Hatje Kantz
Harman, A, (2020). Garden Stories – Field Notes 012. Jamestown: another | place
Horton, J, (2020). An Oxbow Lake – Field Notes 011. Jamestown: another | place
Kitajima, K, (2019). European Diary 1983. 1984. Los Angeles: Little Big Man
Meeks, R, (2020). ciprian honey hotel. London: MACK
Murakami, M, (2020). Subway Diary. Tokyo: Roshin Books
Murtha, T, (2020). Juvenile Jazz Bands. Liverpool: Bluecoat Press
Ohashi, E, (2020). Roadside Lights Seasons: Winter. Tokyo: Case Publishing
Suda, I, (2020). 78. Paris: Chose Commune
Suda, I, (2020). Tokyo Modern Pictorial. Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery
Walsh, P, (2020). Far From The Centre of Things – Field Notes 010. Jamestown: another | place
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