Hardback, full colour illustrations, 128 pages, W155mm x H200mm
The
echo has a "nostalgie de la boue" that history cannot convey; Proust
was a master of the reverberating sounds of the past, ill-defined and
resonant. Chris Steele-Perkins has selected here, from the fragments of
a working photographer's life and the archive of a single year - 2001,
and the new millenium - images that evoke his memories of that year,
sentimental, odd, striking and intensely personal.
Photographers create
in an instant an image that is indelible - until the print fades.
Memory, wilful and indiscriminate, cannot compete. But in "Echoes"
Chris Steele-Perkins has combined the two by selecting images he
created throughout a single year that recall his misting glimpses of
2001. Here are the Surrey hills, New York, Japan, family, Africa, home,
solipsistic aide-memoires he has arranged in a chronology that combine
to make, for him, a Pandora's box of his recollections of that year.