Tuesday 19th March 2024

Books

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The Dark River

The Dark River
Bolton-Farnworth
2015
Cafe Royal Books

Volume one of five volume set exploring the River Irwell during the 1980s.  Also available as Ltd ed six book box set with exclusive essay 'Reflections on Dark River' by Paul Hermann.


Photographers and research
The role of research in contemporary photographic practice
2017
Routledge
9781138844322

Collated and edited by Shirley Read and Mike Simmons.

"This ground-breaking book situates research at the heart of photographic practice, asking the key question: What does research mean for photographers? Illuminating the nature and scope of research and its practical application to photography, the book explores how research provides a critical framework to help develop awareness, extend subject knowledge, and inform the development of photographic workThis ground-breaking book situates research at the heart of photographic practice, asking the key question: What does research mean for photographers? Illuminating the nature and scope of research and its practical application to photography, the book explores how research provides a critical framework to help develop awareness, extend subject knowledge, and inform the development of photographic workThis ground-breaking book situates research at the heart of photographic practice, asking the key question: What does research mean for photographers? Illuminating the nature and scope of research and its practical application to photography, the book explores how research provides a critical framework to help develop awareness, extend subject knowledge, and inform the development of photographic work."

Interview and images about my 'A Black Dog Came Calling' project.


Photographers and research
Extending Ecocriticism

Extending Ecocriticism
Crisis, Collaboration and Challenges in the Environmental Humanities
2017
Manchester University Press
9781784994396

Edited and collated by Peter Barry and William Welstead.

"This volume of essays explores the scope for a further extension of ecocriticism across the environmental humanities. Contributors, who include both established academics and early career researchers in the humanities, were given free rein to interpret the brief. The collection is unusual in that it considers collaboration between individuals both in the same discipline and across creative disciplines. Subjects include familiar environments close to home and those such as Iceland and Antarctica, where narratives of climate, geology and ecology provide a stark backdrop to creative output. A further innovation is the inclusion of essays on public art, natural heritage interpretation and the visualisation and aesthetic impact of wind farms. The book will be of interest to writers, artists, students and researchers in the environmental humanities and those with a general interest in the cultural response to the environment."

 

Essay and images from '1000 Yards, Or So' and 'DDSBs'.


Land Matters
Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity
2011
I. B. Taurus
1845118642

"In this major work on landscape photography, extensively illustrated in colour and black & white, Liz Wells is concerned with the ways in which photographers engage with issues about land, its representation and idealisation. She demonstrates how the visual interpretation of land as landscape reflects and reinforces contemporary political, social and environmental attitudes. She also asks what is at stake in landscape photography now through placing critical appraisal of key examples of work by photographers working in, for example, the USA, in Europe, Scandinavia and Baltic areas, within broader art historical and political concerns. This illuminating book will interest readers in photography and media, geography, art history and travel, as well as those concerned with environmental issues."

 

Features images from 'Dark Days' series.


Land Matters
Perspectives on Place

Perspectives on Place
Theory and Practice in Landscape Photography
2015
Bloomsbury

Jesse A P Alexander author

An appropriate introduction to landscape photography [that] goes beyond the technical know-how of so many books on the market, offering a deeper level of engagement with the subject. --Dr Mike Simmons, Programme Leader MA Photography, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

Features work from my 'Dark Days' series


Sheffield: In Transition 1988-89
2019
Cafe Royal Books

Box set of all my Sheffield books reprinted as a five volume box set. Sold out and new reprint April 2020.


Sheffield: In Transition 1988-89
Birds through My Window

Birds through My Window
2021
numinipress

John Darwell offers an alternative way of seeing birds by capturing painterly scenes from his kitchen window whilst house-bound in rural Cumbria. The zine consists of thirty-two colour photographs and a text by Paul Herrmann.


Bird Watching
2023
Cafe Royal Books

Bird Watching
Sheffield

Sheffield
In Transition
2014
Cafe Royal Books

A further addition to my work from 1980s Sheffield and the first images I ever produced in colour.


Sheffield
The Remains of Some Buildings Around the Don Valley
2014
Cafe Royal Books

Book five in my ongoing collaboration with Cafe Royal of work from my archives.


Sheffield