https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/a0279474c725ace12dccc1d9bf3b8d93.jpg 1fcb37a7fc0b7295ab1f7dbb22b5e743 https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/a7faff65a6743c20a00f3c6dc6567c7f.jpg 0980cc918b8528104c1c61fcf99a7206 https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/8990f191e1140c9b97bbf557a37cee7b.jpg 6fc043810ca1b7a759cce5ccba38407b https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/646d1a04a1da1defeb7ff88bc0596d2f.jpg a6f5396a3ad0b8156a03d3bc2e6eda51 https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/2cb48c7bad5805fb0733a28ecb92b6ff.jpg 276cc81c323840cd9c66074348522e77 https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/cef38769be49403d12bc08c369cce0b5.jpg 50c09ada84216df670cc4a5392e87a04 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stephen Gill Book Photo Book Dimensions Dimensions of object in cm 216 mm x 270 mm Number of Pages Number of Pages 224 Designer Designer Greger Ulf Nilson Editor Editor Stephen Gill Website Website https://www.stephengill.co.uk URL Link to project URL Link to project https://www.stephengill.co.uk/portfolio/portfolio/nggallery/album-1-2/the-pillar Where to buy Where to buy https://www.nobodybooks.com/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The pillar <span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shelfmark - 89.SGILL</span></span> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stephen Gill Description An account of the resource A pillar knocked into the ground next to a stream in a flat, open landscape, trees and houses visible in the distance, beneath a vast sky. That is the backdrop to all of Stephen Gill´s photographs in this book. We see the same landscape in spring and summer, in autumn and winter, we see it in sunshine and rain, in snow and wind. Yet there is not the slightest monotony about these pictures, for in almost every one there is a bird, and each of these birds opens up a unique moment in time. We see something that has never happened before and will never happen again. That it takes place in the midst of a landscape characterised by repetition, in which time is cyclical, sets up a keen existential dynamic: on the one hand, everything has happened before, there’s nothing new under the sun; on the other, every moment is unique and carries the hallmark of the miracle: what happens happens only once and never again. But this wasn’t what I thought about the first time I looked at these photographs. In fact, I barely thought at all, for I was shaken, as a person so often is when confronted with an extraordinary work of art. I’d never seen birds in this way before, as if on their own terms, as independent creatures with independent lives. Ancient, forever improvising, endlessly embroiled with the forces of nature, and yet indulging too. And so infinitely alien to us. Words by Karl Ove Knausgård Subject The topic of the resource 150 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Words by Karl Ove Knausgård 3 Part cloth bound hardback 96 Quadtone black and white plates Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Nobody