Pictures From The Garden
2023
$48.00
First edition of Pictures From The Garden by Sian Davey, Matthew Finn, Nik Roche, Alex Schneideman, Jem Southam, Paddy Summerfield, Alys Tomlinson and Vanessa Winship (2023)
First impression
Large format hardback in new condition
Published by Dewi Lewis
Please note each print option in the special edition is in an edition of 25 signed and numbered copies
Print size:20.5 x 25.5 cm (with a 2 cm white border)
About
Pictures from the Garden is a collection of seven powerful photographic essays made in response to Paddy Summerfield’s influential book, Mother and Father, by leading UK photographers.
Summerfield’s 2014 publication, set mainly in his parents’ north Oxford house and garden, is a poignant and durational examination of his relationship with his parents as their lives together faded. On publication Summerfield received wide praise with the Guardian’s Sean O’Hagan describing Mother and Father as a “...profoundly sad and beautiful book”.
In Pictures from the Garden the photographers, each of whom has drawn inspiration from Mother and Father, travelled to Summerfield’s house in Oxford to discover a personal route to explore the emotions and themes that were evoked in the book. By photographing in the same space that set the scene for Summerfield’s original work, the photographers imbued themselves in the physical and psychological world depicted in its pages.
