Book Reviews


Jack Davison’s New Book of Photographs

June 6, 2019

By Libby Peterson

Regular readers and followers of The New York Times Magazine, M le Monde, British Vogue and Luncheon will surely recognize the name Jack Davison, a photographer based in the UK who has been in near-constant rotation at these outlets and more over the last five years.

Since his days as a teenaged photographer back in 2007, Davison has wasted no time in experimenting with the possibilities of the medium. London-based publisher and design studio Loose Joints has pulled together a progressive look at these efforts in the new book, Photographs.

Davison credits his wife, Agnes, in the book for teaching him how to use a camera. Prolific now and still under 30, he creates photographs that are immediately recognizable for their brazen approach and experimentation of color, texture and closeness.

Some of the 136 pages of Photographs show Davison’s tack-sharp approach to the craft; others, his way of feeling out a scene with grain, blur, rippled reflections and close-up haze. The risks Davison takes with tight frames and noir-esque shadows lend a certain cinematic touch that invites a mysterious narrative to unfold behind each image. 

Photographs, available now, is a carefully curated  collection that would inspire any photographer to create with more feeling.

Price: $45
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