Description:
1st Edition
Fascinating study of Taylor's sister's house in North London. Introduction by Mark Haworth-Booth and text by Charles Newton.. This is a first 1989bedition copy of Ideal Home. The book quickly began to influence photographers and students as to what was a suitable subject for an image, opening up the possibilities of exploring the ordinary, everyday objects of life in a new way. It quickly became a cult book and is now considered a ‘modern classic’.
Ideal Home is an almost forensic photographic record of his sister’s north London suburban house. Working his way methodically around the house, Taylor documented the rooms, table tops, ornaments, interiors of fridges, cupboards, garden – as many aspects of the domestic interior of the home as possible. Mark Haworth-Booth, in the original introduction describes him as ‘photographing with the impunity of a blood relative’ yet Taylor understood that success hinged on his ability to maintain an objective view. This objectivity is wonderfully juxtaposed with his sister’s own comments about the images and the objects that they feature.
Publication Date: 1989
Publisher: Cornerhouse
Condition: Very Good
Book Size: 29 x 23cm
Pages: 77
Format: Softcover
ISBN: 13: 9780948797408
Description:
1st Edition
Fascinating study of Taylor's sister's house in North London. Introduction by Mark Haworth-Booth and text by Charles Newton.. This is a first 1989bedition copy of Ideal Home. The book quickly began to influence photographers and students as to what was a suitable subject for an image, opening up the possibilities of exploring the ordinary, everyday objects of life in a new way. It quickly became a cult book and is now considered a ‘modern classic’.
Ideal Home is an almost forensic photographic record of his sister’s north London suburban house. Working his way methodically around the house, Taylor documented the rooms, table tops, ornaments, interiors of fridges, cupboards, garden – as many aspects of the domestic interior of the home as possible. Mark Haworth-Booth, in the original introduction describes him as ‘photographing with the impunity of a blood relative’ yet Taylor understood that success hinged on his ability to maintain an objective view. This objectivity is wonderfully juxtaposed with his sister’s own comments about the images and the objects that they feature.
Publication Date: 1989
Publisher: Cornerhouse
Condition: Very Good
Book Size: 29 x 23cm
Pages: 77
Format: Softcover
ISBN: 13: 9780948797408