evelyn hofer :: london perceived
The US photographer Evelyn Hofer, who died recently, did 3 large format books in the 60s with the writer V. S. Pritchett – the two talents came together especially fruitfully in London Perceived.
Her deadpan genius loci images and faintly bizarre portraits prefiguring Diane Arbus, married with his rich, enveloping characterisations, make this book one of the first psychogeographic efforts in terms of dealing with the city as a reality (rather than the usual puff piece for establishment and crown), finding poetry, complexity, texture in the everyday.
If you liked James Mason’s The London that Nobody Knows, you’ll love this, ducks…
