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A pillar driven into the ground beside a stream in a flat, open landscape, with trees and houses visible in the distance, beneath a vast sky. This is the backdrop for all of Stephen Gill’s photographs featured in this book. We see the same landscape in spring and summer, in fall and winter, in sunshine and rain, in 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 see something that has never happened before and will never happen again. The fact that this occurs in the midst of a landscape characterized by repetition, in which time is cyclical, creates a sharp existential dynamic: on the one hand, everything has already happened; there is nothing new under the sun; on the other hand, every moment is unique and bears the mark of a miracle: what happens occurs only once and will never happen again.
-Karl Ove Knausgård
Published by Nobody Books, 2019
21.6 x 27 cm
224 pages
ISBN
A pillar driven into the ground beside a stream in a flat, open landscape, with trees and houses visible in the distance, beneath a vast sky. This is the backdrop for all of Stephen Gill’s photographs featured in this book. We see the same landscape in spring and summer, in fall and winter, in sunshine and rain, in 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 see something that has never happened before and will never happen again. The fact that this occurs in the midst of a landscape characterized by repetition, in which time is cyclical, creates a sharp existential dynamic: on the one hand, everything has already happened; there is nothing new under the sun; on the other hand, every moment is unique and bears the mark of a miracle: what happens occurs only once and will never happen again.
-Karl Ove Knausgård
Published by Nobody Books, 2019
21.6 x 27 cm
224 pages
ISBN
