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Photographers and Research
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Photographers and Research

by Shirley Read, Mike Simmons
December 2016
Beginner
288 pages
8h 19m
English
Routledge
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Shirley Read: Finding and Knowing—Thinking about Ideas

How important is it for an artist or photographer to find a subject matter that is particular to them? And what do we mean when we talk about the central concerns of a photographer’s work? What Simon Norfolk, in his interview for this book, describes in this way: ‘when I’m researching I’m still looking back fourteen years and thinking about the line that runs through and joins my work up’? Or in the same vein when Georgia O’Keefe in an interview, very many years ago now, said that looking back she could recognise that she had the same concerns in her nineties as she did when she was eighteen and just starting out?

As a curator I am looking for what is at the core of any work, whether it ...

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