Perspective: A legendary book returns, skirting the line between fact and fiction
One of the things that is most interesting about photography is that it can be both descriptive and metaphoric. It is descriptive by its very nature as a recording device. But in the right hands, that recording device can be turned into a vehicle for gathering impressions and even creating worlds. The reissue of photographer Mark Power’s seminal work, “The shipping forecast is a uniquely British custom.
Power acknowledges this treading the line between fact and fiction in an essay at the end of the book where he says:
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