{"product_id":"a-commonplace-book","title":"A Commonplace Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of A Commonplace Book by Raymond Meeks (2026)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst impression \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLarge format hardback in new condition \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e120 pages, 59 images\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClothbound hardcover with dust jacket\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e24.5 x 31.3 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnglish\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCo-published with The Agency, Hudson Valley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eA Commonplace Book\u003c\/em\u003e presents photographs by Raymond Meeks selected by John Gossage—a photographer who has been an enduring influence for Meeks, inspiring his approach and use of the camera to construct a picture—untethered from sequence or narrative continuity. Here to discover is a breadth of visual style and approach, varied in form, unified by a singular sensibility. Gossage’s initial impetus for the book was his realization that Meeks had “made some of the most stylistically various single pictures that I had ever seen in a serious photographer’s work.” Meeks then agreed to supply his pictures, from which Gossage made his edit and created a new context for them to be seen one at a time. And so was born, in Gossage’s words, this commonplace book “of remarkable things, pictures that are as rich individually as they are in the narrative of Ray’s books, but in a different way. They stand as convincing in a style of variation with certainty, always having the feel and thought of a single author.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raymond Meeks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58074754974078,"sku":null,"price":48.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/2593\/1985\/files\/A-Commonplace-Book-Raymond-Meeks.jpg?v=1790085663","url":"https:\/\/www.setantabooks.com\/products\/a-commonplace-book","provider":"Setanta Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}