Title: Palermo: a notebook
Photographer/s: Graeme Vaughan
Date of publication: September 2010
Place of publication: Manchester, UK
Dimensions: 90mm x 125mm x 25mm
Edition size: 30
Type of binding: Hardback, folded
Number of pages: 62
Type of paper: brilliant supreme matte
Number of pictures: 48
Type of printing: inkjet
Printer: self-printed
Publisher: self-published
Designer: graeme vaughan
Editor: graeme vaughan
Language: english
Category: handmade artist book
Price: £20
Summary: my work uses photographs and books to explore the creation of meaning in modern constructed urban environments. Theorists tell us that we can find meaning in cities through everyday practices, that people in the course and movement of their everyday lives can define the spaces they inhabit. These works pursue the meaning of place generated through quotidian spatial practices.
Without reference to maps or books, people in cities become my guides. These photographs are made as I walk through cities, following strangers as they go about their everyday lives. No-one is followed for long, not long enough for me to be concerned with them as individuals. They act as a collective set of city-dwellers who define their city and show it to me.
The route and direction of each walk is dependent on the movement of people I choose to follow, the photographs taken as a product of chance encounters within the rigour of a framework set for myself. Through this method, these photographs take us away from usual tourist routes and sites, we are led off the surface of tourist maps and official guides to official histories.
PALERMO: A NOTEBOOK
This notebook references the city map in its folded paper construction. It is also a physical echo of the random wandering through the city undertaken in producing the work. ‘reading’ this notebook with its maze like construction requires an engagement with the spatial properties it holds to explore its contents. Its layout and construction enables different combinations of images to be viewed at the same time, making connections between different parts of the same place.
Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 16/June/1970 Liverpool, UK
Website: www.photogas.com
Book link: http://www.photogas.co.uk/index.php?/works/palermo—a-notebook/
Donated by: Graeme Vaughan
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