Currently reading ‘Light Matters’ by Vicki Goldberg
Currently reading ‘Light Matters’ by Vicki Goldberg
Yomi Ṣode. Penguin. (128p) ISBN 9780141998572 I was sent this out of the blue by some lovely marketer at Penguin Books and thank you whoever that marketer was as I loved this collection of poetry/works by Yomi Ṣodi. As always I’m always in awe of poets and writers who bare all to the public in …
Mike Unwin, Ryuto Miyake. Orion Publishing. (224p) ISBN 9780857828958 I’d already loved ‘Around the World in 80 Trees’ in this loose series from Laurence King Publishing and was really looking forward to this one, so much I popped into work on my holiday to pick it up as soon as I found out it was …
Vicki Goldberg. Aperture. (248p) ISBN 9781597111652 A collection of essays exploring some of the usual ‘canon’ of photographers of the twentieth century, with a definitely western bias, if not a US one. This is definitely an end of the Twentieth Century™ survey, before the explosion of 21st Century reappraisals and widening of the acknowledged ‘greats’. …
Henry Carroll. Orion Publishing. (128p) ISBN 9781780673356 Another great little book on art and photography, really like this series. This one is a well set out book on how to achieve good photographs, looking at the basics of your camera and some of the ‘rules’ of photography but doesn’t set it in stone. It’s a …
Oliver Burkeman. Vintage. (288p) ISBN 9781784704001 Not really the kind of book I normally read, not into self-help or time management books but I’d heard that this book was different from the run of the mill books in those genres. Right from the start Oliver sets out his stall that this isn’t a time management …
Andy Shepherd. Templar Publishing. (224p) ISBN 9781848126497 The Boy Who Grew Dragons had (shamefully) been on my TBR list for a long time, I initially got it to join in with #PrimarySchoolBookClub but in the end didn’t have the time to join in. From the start of this wonderful book I was gripped and really …
Max Porter. Faber & Faber. (80p) ISBN 9780571370702 That was a difficult read, with all the energy and style of a Francis Bacon painting, words often hard words being used to explore the dying mind of the artist. Poetry, prose, and everything in between playing with mood, energy, lighting, history, emotion, and death. Max Porter …