April 2005
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Photoblog
As an amateur or aspirant photographer, you can feel humbled and intimidated when you flick through the lovely silky pages of expensive books. David Bailey, John Swanell, Cartier-Bresson, Colin Prior, and other professionals you have never heard of but have their published collections alongside the best. You may also feel inspired and find it a pleasurable experience, wishing you had a spare five hundred pounds to acquire a small library of these beautiful books. …
Space
There’s an academic book titled The Poetics of Space that I surveyed a few years ago, and a book called The Third Space that I found more useful. Both of them consider the notion of space in relation to culture, and the latter rests on a geographic analysis of different locations or social spaces, and the significance they have. The internet has also been construed in these spatial terms, as a non-corporeal and imaginative environment…