Release of ‘On Reading’ by David Hurn published RRB Photo Books.
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 forthcoming book—On Reading—brings together these images for the first time and is 40 years in the making.
“I was invited in September 1983, together with 99 other photographers from all over the world, for a midnight to midnight 24 hour vigil to photograph London. The result was the book ‘A Day in the Life London’. Among those guests arriving was one of my photographic heroes, André Kertész. Kertész was 89 years of age. I suggested that I look after him and that he should concentrate on photographing in Hyde Park. I met up with him for breakfast in a hotel in South Kensington. I told him that one of my favourite books was his, small in size, ‘On Reading’, first published in 1971—Kertész’s father was a bookseller—after much chatting and laughing, I suggested, that if he gave his permission, I would re-do the book when I was 89. He gave his permission. This is the result.” – David Hurn
David Hurn : On Reading
RRB Photobooks
Hardcover with Jacket
15.5 x 20.4cm
64 pages
First Edition Including Special Edition of 50 numbered copies, with signed and numbered pigment print, in presentation folder
https://rrbphotobooks.com/products/on-reading
