Jonathan Walker
Monday, April 1, 2024

Photographic Representations of Venice: Fulvio Roiter

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One man almost single-handedly defined the photographic image of Venice in the late twentieth century: Fulvio Roiter (1926–2016). His output...
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Notes on Photography: The Outmoded

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He was the first to perceive the revolutionary energies that appear in the 'outmoded', in the first iron constructions, the first fa...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Photographic Inspirations: The Phaidon 55 Series

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‘The illiteracy of the future’, someone has said, ‘will be ignorance not of reading or writing, but of photography’. But shouldn’t a photogr...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Photographic Inspirations: Robert Adams, The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range (1974)

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Robert Adams was one of the photographers showcased in the celebrated New Topographics exhibition held at George Eastman House in 1975, wh...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Extra Images From Push Process: 4

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There are very few telephoto compositions in Push Process : of the sixty or so unique images, only four (unless you count the shots taken on...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Notes on Photography: The Photographer's Body

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In Push Process , I tried to argue – and to dramatise – the idea that photography is something one does with the whole body, not a disembodi...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Photographic Inspirations: David Goldblatt, No. 4 Shaft, President Steyn Gold Mine, 1969

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There are many images and books by David Goldblatt I could have chosen to showcase here. He was one of the most important documentary photo...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Two Events in Canterbury on 21 March

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I'm doing two author events for Push Process this Thursday, 21 March, in Canterbury. The first is at the Canterbury Christ Church Unive...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Photographic Inspirations: Diane Arbus

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Diane Arbus is one of the most influential monographs in the history of photography. Since it was first published in 1972, a year after Arb...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Extra Images From Push Process: 3

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All the published photos in Push Process are printed in black and white, and the vast majority were also shot on black and white film, but ...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

Venice as a Modern City

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This piece is adapted from a portion of an academic article I published in 2011, which is based around the photographs that are now included...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Extra Images From Push Process: 2

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These two large-format images were in the concluding photosequence for Push Process until the last minute, both of them near the beginning ...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Photographic Inspirations: Robert Frank, The Americans (1959)

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The title of Robert Frank’s The Americans  knowingly places it in conversation with Evans’s  American Photographs from 1938, which Frank use...
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