- RRB 2024
- Hardback, 1st edition, 64p
- New
Since the late 1950s, photographer David Hurn has taken photographs of people engaged in the act of reading. He had captured moments of repose and absorption in cafes and bars, at dog shows and railway stations, strip clubs, museums, the seaside, film sets, parks and streets. His new book—On Reading—brings together these images for the first time and is 40 years in the making.
The photographs in On Reading were made across the world—from Hurn’s home country of Wales to across much of Europe to as far afield as Qatar, the US and New Zealand. Many were made whilst on assignment, including a photograph of The Beatles on the set of A Hard Days Night, another at Queen Charlotte’s debutante Ball in London and several at Hay Festivals over the years—but many others were also made as Hurn went about his daily life. The reading material may have changed from books and magazines to mobile phones, but the joy and power of reading remains a constant across the nearly 70 years of photographs contained in the book.
Signed copy.
