I’ll admit to being heavily influenced by my workshop with John Blakemore and this has probably biased my review of this book a bit. However, given that declaration of bias I will also say that this is one of the most beautifully printed books I own, necessarily so if it is to reflect the prints that I saw in person.
The good news is it gets close – as close as a book can get I would say. Let’s start with the book itself though. Cloth bound in a cool grey and including a print on the front cover (the limited edition includes an 8×10 hand print although is £150).
The first pictures we see are a surprising set of colour photographs from 1963-1968, shoot through pictures of trees and grasses with the setting sun a blurry fireball as backdrop, quite contemporary in feel.
