Meanwhile #181
Your weekly hamper of visual snacks.
The Arc, a gorgeous collection of work shot on polaroid and experimental film by photographer Jen Ervin in the woods of her native South Carolina between 2012 and 2019. Collected in a rather lovely looking monograph from Aint-Bad.
Scrolling through Erich Hartmann’s work on Magnum’s site, this shot from 1984 stooped me in my tracks. Simply titled Pair of shoes on deck, Caribbean, it’s both wonderfully calm and really damn harrowing. There’s so little detail, nothing to imply what may lie beyond the boundaries on the frame – where are they, where have they gone – so the mood is entirely down to whatever the reader brings to it, like some kind of Rorschach test.
Dormant Season, another gorgeous black and white photobook, this time from Erinn Springer, a photographer based between Menomonie, Wisconsin and Brooklyn, NY. Seeing these shots on a screen can only do them so much justice – I need to see, feel, smell that ink on paper.
7 A.M. (New Year’s Morning) by László Moholy-Nagy, c. 1930, taken from the window of his home in Berlin. Just lovely.
This week’s random fantastic pic thrown at me by the algorithmically astute Pinterest: Helen Mirren in a reading for the National Youth Theatre with fellow actors Michael Croft and John Nightingale, 1965. For me, Mirren only kid of popped into existence with Prime Suspect, so seeing pre-nineties shots of her is always a pleasant surprise. More of these on Vogue.