Neighbourhood

Title: Neighbourhood

Photographer/s: John MacLean

Date of publication: 2009

Place of publication: London UK

Dimensions: 16.3 x 24cm

Edition size: 800

Type of binding: perfect bound

Number of pages: 88

Number of pictures: 43

Type of printing: 4 color

Printer: Cassochrome

Publisher: Hunter and James (John MacLean)

Designer: Wayne Daly

ISBN: 9780955867323

Category: artist’s book

Price: £20.00

Summary: Neighbourhood. Sixty-nine photographs taken in John MacLean’s immediate locality of Tooting Bec, south-west London, between 1 March 2008 and 24 May 2009. Published as an A5, 44-page book.

“If I couldn’t find material to do an artwork walking around the block once, I wouldn’t do it” – Robert Rauschenberg 1955.

“Throughout the history of photography, practitioners have frequently looked to fresh, unfamiliar locations to generate new work. Inspired by the methodology Robert Rauschenberg employed to make his Combines, I decided to try an opposing strategy. Why not, I reasoned, photograph the place that was most familiar and least far-flung? So, I began to produce a large body of photographs ‘taken’ within a strict, five-minute walk of my house.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 23.4.69 UK

Website: http://www.jmaclean.co.uk

Book link: http://www.jmaclean.co.uk/2009/12/neighbourhood/

Donated by: john maclean

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