Field Studies (Signed)

Signed by the Photographer.

This was the first book by Stephen Gill, which is long out of print.
Stephen Gill was the first Photographer to be put 'in the spotlight' by Phototitles. Stephen Gills photographs have all the naiive gusto of the field studies series of old. Mercifully lacking in sarcasm and malevolent irony, they are also wise and modern and beautifully laden with tiny, understated details about the way we live today -- JON RONSON
This is photographer Stephen Gills guide to his world of objects, scenes and the things we do so familiar and obvious they fall below the usual threshold of peoples attention. Producing series of images in and around London since 1999 cash points, lost people, the back of advertising billboards and people gazing vacantly out of the window on the London-Southend train Gills scrutiny of the visual details of the everyday combines formal rigour with empathy towards his human subjects. Eight series are included in Gills first book with his observations and an introduction by Jon Ronson confirming his arrival as an original vision of contemporary photography.

Since 1996 Stephen Gill has been making serial studies of mundane British scenes and objects including cash points, lost people, the back of advertising billboards and people traveling on the London to Southend train. His visual approach is unique, combining conceptual rigour with enormous sympathy for his human subjects, and has already been widely appreciated in Granta and the New York Times Magazine, among others. His first book confirms his status as a key young vision in contemporary photography With an introductory essay by humorist and TV filmmaker Jon Ronson.

Field Studies 1999-2004
Photographs by Stephen Gill Words by Jon Ronson Edited and sequenced by Stephen Gill Design by Frost Published by Chris Boot 137 colour photographs 256 pages 170 x 220 mm Printed on Gardapat Kiara, 150 gsm Paperbound hardback Printed at EBS, Verona, Italy Published in 2004 ISBN 978-0-9542813-6-6