I am a philosopher interested in photography. Back in the early 1970s I worked for Chard Jenkins, the advertising photographer who discovered the James Bond star George Lazenby. I attended evening classes in photojournalism under the Jorge Lewinski at the London College of Printing (now London College of Communication). I was a stringer for the Fleet Street agency Barratts Photo-Press, and while there photographed the film star Olivia de Havilland and Sonja Kristina of the rock band Curved Air. After gaining my D.Phil in Philosophy in 1982, I continued my interest in photography. In 2007, I was invited to give a presentation at George Watson College, Edinburgh on Metaphysics of the Photograph. In 2016, my photo-series Sheffield Lanes was included in Bourn, at the Stryx Gallery, Birmingham. I continue to explore the interface between photographic image making and philosophy, and welcome dialogue with other philosophers interested in the medium of photography. [CV]
RECOMMENDED READING
Roland Barthes Camera Lucida Jonathan Cape 1982
Graham Clarke The Photograph Oxford University Press 1997
Helmut & Alison Gernsheim A Concise History of Photography Thames & Hudson 1965
Charles Harbutt Travelog 'Epilogue' MIT Press 1973
Janet Malcolm Diana and Nikon David R Godine 1980
Aaron Scharf Art and Photography Allen Lane, Penguin 1968
Susan Sontag On Photography Allen Lane 1977
John Szarkowski The Photographer's Eye Secker & Warburg 1980
Petr Tausk Photography in the 20th Century Focal Press 1980
Edward Weston Daybooks Volumes I and II Aperture 1961, 1973
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