Photographs
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Author(s)Nigel Grierson
PublisherDewi Lewis Publishing
ISBN / ASIN1907893644
ISBN-139781907893643
Sales Rank1,352,917
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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For Grierson, the visual world has its own rhythms and language, more profound than the spoken word: "I'm always primarily interested in the medium and how different the world looks when photographed. It's this sense of discovery within the work which fuels my imagination, and which I hope will provoke a similar response from the viewer." Whilst the work ranges from street photographs through to constructed images, his primary interest is in the new meanings that emerge as disparate elements and surfaces come into contact with one another and abstract reality. This lack of information within the fragment, divorced from its original context of time and space, is seen as offering greater scope for the imagination. Grierson has said that some of his more constructed images, "owe as much to the spatial surrealism of Beckett and Kafka, or the investigation of surface by Tapies, as they do to other practitioners of photography."