Last week I bought a copy of Informal Beauty – The Photographs of Paul Nash (Tate Publishing 2016). Nash’s small photographs, at first inconsequential seeming, seek to explore a new way of looking at the world, of scrutinising found objects. Taken between 1930 and 1946 they are ‘manifestations of modern photography’ and reflect his fascination with revealing the past in the present. Many of the subjects are traces projecting enigmatically an unknown history.
Photo: Wicken Fen, January 2017