In the new year

Here I am banging the drum again - there are lots of people going around today wishing each other Happy New Year but they are so late  .....
New Years Day was actually Dec 22, the day after the shortest day of the year -ie New Year's Eve  - really, I fail to see why people are so puzzled about this  -- after all surely when the days begin to lengthen once more, this is a new year??

Anyway that's my view and I'm stickin' to  it!!

Here's something I made over the holidays  - you have already seen the first version:

As you can see from the block (above) I did a good deal more preparation and a good deal more cutting  and used only oil-based ink this time - even still it takes quite a while to build a satisfactory level of ink in the print -haven't had time yet to do any more - was making a couple of notebooks ( getting orders for them now) and was spending a lot of time looking at this

Cover with dust jacket

 

 

 

Cover and inside front cover

Sample page

There are 561 photographers featured from 150 years of photography each with a single image and while it is hardly an in-depth study, the sign-posts are there  and I have already discovered two artists whose work I will pursue:

 

Thomas  Florschuetz (b.1957, Germany) -Tryptych#77 - 3 C-type prints 1993

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Fay Godwin ( 1931 -2005, German), Untitled - C-type print -1990 

 It will be interesting to find more work from these artists to see if there are other images like this.

I will come back over the next day or two with a few pictures I pcked up over the holidays