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Blind Corners

Blind Corners

Essays on Photography

by Michael Collins, introduced by Will Self

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"Blind Corners is a book every photographer should own." — W. Scott Olsen, Frames

For many years, photographer Michael Collins had wondered what exactly it was that he found so mysterious about photography. In this series of linked pieces, Collins offers a reappraisal of humble—and often ubiquitous—photographic genres that he believes are worthy of greater understanding.

From restoring abandoned photos, whose subjects are lost to time, to a quotidian history of the studio portrait; from tracing the origins of the panorama within the wider field of art history to an experiment in photographic portraiture using gorillas, Collins reveals what it is about photography that continues to fascinate us.

Blind Corners includes color and black & white photographs throughout.

Additional Book Information

Series: Notting Hill Editions
ISBN: 9781912559657
Pages: 192
Publication Date:

Praise

There are great many books of photography. There are a handful of really good books about photography. Blind Corners, a short book bound with the elegance of a Notting Hill Edition is one of those books that will strike deep. It gives language and examples to the complications and wonders and joy of what we do.
—W. Scott Olsen, Frames

Collins concentrates on some of his favourite pictures, but the essays in Blind Corners are not simple appreciations. The book is part meditation, part polemic . . . In large part, he succeeds in reinvesting photography with some of its original magic. The photographs in the book help. These are interspersed through the text and printed on matte paper, so that the grain is sometimes visible through the image. It’s a nice effect, reminding you of the physicality of the picture . . . Blind Corners is a quiet, somewhat eccentric success.
— Aaron Labaree, Literary Review

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