In the beginning was the chase
The next of our Visiting Scholar 2018 reports is from José Luís Neves, Lecturer in Photography at Ulster University. In this report José shares with us his highlights from this […]
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University Library Special Collections Visiting Scholars Show and Tell Programme
Back in March, we announced the names of this year’s University Library Special Collections Visiting Scholars. We have enjoyed getting to know the first of them over the last few […]
The Hidden Photobooks: Moonage Daydream
Moonage Daydream Mick Rock Cassell Illustrated, London, 2005 This is the last post in our short series. Back in the early 70s, when David Bowie was evangelising the then virtually unknown (in the UK at least) Lou…
The Hidden Photobooks: Paris by Night
Paris by Night Brassai Bullfinch Press, 2001 Brassai (real name Gyula Halász) was a Hungarian artist who moved to Paris in the mid-twenties, in his own mid-twenties, and taught himself French by reading Proust. Paris…
The Hidden Photobooks: Without Sanctuary
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America James Allen, Hilton Als, John Lewis, Leon F. Litwack Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, 2000 Today would be William Faulkner’s 120th birthday, and anyone who knows me…
The Hidden Photobooks: Venezia
Venezia Gianni Berengo Gardin Istituto superiore per la storia della fotografia, Palermo, 2006 As much as I cannot seem to commit this photographer’s name to memory, I love his work. The first photograph I ever saw…
The Hidden Photobooks: To Walk in Beauty
To Walk in Beauty: a Navajo Family’s Journey Home Stacia Spragg-Braude Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, 2009 The first time I saw this photobook I was reminded of Danish photographer Jacob Aue Sobol’s book…
The Hidden Photobooks: Winterreise
Winterreise Luc Delahaye Phaidon Press, London, 2003 Luc Delahaye’s extraordinary little book Winterreise, (or winter journey) deals in the same currencies of drugs, violence and utter poverty as Eugene Richards’…
The Hidden Photobooks: Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue
Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue Eugene Richards Aperture, New York 1994 “Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue”, Eugene Richards’ documentary of the problems facing the drug-flooded communities of East New York, North Philadelphia,…
The Hidden Photobooks: The Maze
The Maze Donovan Wylie Granta Books, London, 2004 IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands’ death, in 1981, was no less shocking for its inevitability. He was perhaps the Maze prison’s most widely-known inmate. 19 years later…