Tag: Darren Andrews
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Shooting birds
(This is the short introduction I wrote to Murmur (2024) a new edition of a book by Lancaster-based photographer Darren Andrews of strange and beautiful photographs of starling murmurations, some of which are included below) In the late 19th century French physiologist Etienne-Jules Marey became preoccupied with the challenge of studying movement, convinced that medical knowledge…
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Beautiful decay (extended version): Darren Andrews’ Beloved
This is the introductory essay I wrote for Beloved, the latest book by Darren Andrews which features this series of photographs, and which is available from his website. The essay is an expanded version of the exhibition notes which were in an earlier blog post on this site. Death is the principal subject of photography. The fascination a photograph…
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Beautiful decay: Notes on Darren Andrews’ “Beloved”
These are gallery notes for Beloved, a forthcoming exhibition of photographs by Darren Andrews at Lancaster City Museum. The illustrations are photographs from the exhibition. Death is the principal subject of photography. The fascination a photograph holds for us lies in our knowledge that the frozen moment captured in the image has passed. Whether chemical or…
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‘Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land’: Darren Andrews’ Pleasureland (2010)
This is the introductory essay I wrote for Pleasureland [2012], a book of photographs by Darren Andrews, a Lancaster-based photographer and musicia . The photographs are all from this collection. This collection of photographs of seaside resorts in England shares its name with the seafront fairground which opened a century ago in Southport, Merseyside. In one…
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