My most treasured present this year came in the form of a very large book. Ok, so it's not Domesday-big, but it's certainly a tome if ever I saw one.
Tim Walker is both mine and Vogue's favourite photographer. You will have seen one of his many famous photographs at some point during the last few years- his Karen Elson and Lily Cole hyper-surreal shoots are a firm favourite in blogger-dom.
I knew there had to be something else though, something behind those portraits of macaroon-hued horses, life-size doll houses with their own model dolls and fairy tales tipped on their heads. You don't start out doing some of the most elaborate shoots for the worlds biggest fashion magazine and using some of the most complex props ever created without an education, a past.
This book is beautiful and, in about five languages or so, explains many of the questions I had. So many of his early photographs aren't fashion at all. Or maybe they are, but just not like we know it.
I never really fell for the 'coffee-table' book phenomenon, I find it strange and alien to think that people buy books with pretty pictures as they would an ornament like a vase or a porcelain animal. I don't even have a coffee table for goodness sake. But, I do have a dressing table. With a perfectly sized space for a very large book.
Tim Walker is both mine and Vogue's favourite photographer. You will have seen one of his many famous photographs at some point during the last few years- his Karen Elson and Lily Cole hyper-surreal shoots are a firm favourite in blogger-dom.
I knew there had to be something else though, something behind those portraits of macaroon-hued horses, life-size doll houses with their own model dolls and fairy tales tipped on their heads. You don't start out doing some of the most elaborate shoots for the worlds biggest fashion magazine and using some of the most complex props ever created without an education, a past.
This book is beautiful and, in about five languages or so, explains many of the questions I had. So many of his early photographs aren't fashion at all. Or maybe they are, but just not like we know it.
I never really fell for the 'coffee-table' book phenomenon, I find it strange and alien to think that people buy books with pretty pictures as they would an ornament like a vase or a porcelain animal. I don't even have a coffee table for goodness sake. But, I do have a dressing table. With a perfectly sized space for a very large book.
