Hackney Flowers (LTD & SIGNED WITH PRINT)

Stephen Gill
Hackney Flowers (LTD & SIGNED WITH PRINT)

Photographs: Stephen Gill

Publisher: Nobody

114 pages

Pictures: 65

Year: 2007

Comments: Linen hardcover in a slipcase, 310 x 235 mm. First edition, 2007. Limited edition of 100 numbered and signed copies with a signed C-print (see pictures) in an envelope. In excellent condition. Rare and collectible. Included in the "history of photobook" Parr & Badger"p 324.

Stephen Gill has again used his surroundings as the inspiration for this beautiful and evocative series. Hackney Flowers has evolved from his series and book Hackney Wick. This times Gill has collected flowers, seeds, berries and objects from Hackney, East London, that were then pressed in his studio and re-photographed alongside his own photographs and found ephemera, thus building up multi-layered images extracted from the area. Some of the base photographs were also buried in Hackney Wick, allowing the subsequent decay to imprint upon the images, stressing this collaboration with place. A parallel series also runs within this finely produced volume, showing members of the public in Hackney with floral details on their person. This is a warm, poetic and visually exciting book containing images that leave an overwhelming sense of colour, emotion and rhythm extracted from a single borough of London.