Tag: death
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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…
Bruce Bennett 