THE PILLAR - Stephen Gill
A pillar sunk into the ground beside a stream in a flat, open landscape, trees and houses visible in the distance, under an immense sky. This is the backdrop for all Stephen Gill's photographs in this book. We see the same landscape in spring and summer, autumn and winter, sun and rain, snow and wind. Yet there is not the slightest monotony in these images, for in almost every one of them there is a bird, and each of these birds opens up a unique moment in time. We're seeing something that has never happened before and will never happen again. The fact that this is happening in the midst of a landscape characterized by repetition, in which time is cyclical, creates an acute existential dynamic: on the one hand, everything has already happened, there's nothing new under the sun; on the other, each moment is unique and bears the hallmark of the miraculous: what is happening is happening only once and will never happen again.
-Karl Ove Knausgård
Published by Nobody Books, 2019
21.6 x 27 cm
224 pages
ISBN 978-91-985233-0-0
A pillar sunk into the ground beside a stream in a flat, open landscape, trees and houses visible in the distance, under an immense sky. This is the backdrop for all Stephen Gill's photographs in this book. We see the same landscape in spring and summer, autumn and winter, sun and rain, snow and wind. Yet there is not the slightest monotony in these images, for in almost every one of them there is a bird, and each of these birds opens up a unique moment in time. We're seeing something that has never happened before and will never happen again. The fact that this is happening in the midst of a landscape characterized by repetition, in which time is cyclical, creates an acute existential dynamic: on the one hand, everything has already happened, there's nothing new under the sun; on the other, each moment is unique and bears the hallmark of the miraculous: what is happening is happening only once and will never happen again.
-Karl Ove Knausgård
Published by Nobody Books, 2019
21.6 x 27 cm
224 pages
ISBN 978-91-985233-0-0
A pillar sunk into the ground beside a stream in a flat, open landscape, trees and houses visible in the distance, under an immense sky. This is the backdrop for all Stephen Gill's photographs in this book. We see the same landscape in spring and summer, autumn and winter, sun and rain, snow and wind. Yet there is not the slightest monotony in these images, for in almost every one of them there is a bird, and each of these birds opens up a unique moment in time. We're seeing something that has never happened before and will never happen again. The fact that this is happening in the midst of a landscape characterized by repetition, in which time is cyclical, creates an acute existential dynamic: on the one hand, everything has already happened, there's nothing new under the sun; on the other, each moment is unique and bears the hallmark of the miraculous: what is happening is happening only once and will never happen again.
-Karl Ove Knausgård
Published by Nobody Books, 2019
21.6 x 27 cm
224 pages
ISBN 978-91-985233-0-0
