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Tag Archives: Fiction
Photography in Fiction: Blind Woman’s Buff
Photo journalist and Magnum co-founder Robert Capa famously said, ‘If your photos aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough’. He may have meant close enough physically to the subject (my interpretation), or perhaps psychologically, or engaged sufficiently in the story. In his … Continue reading
Photography in Fiction: Held, Ann Michaels
Held, Michaels’s third novel, is divided into twelve fragmented sections that jump between 1902 and 2025, not in chronological order. It is set mostly in England, but also in other parts of Europe; and is peopled by a large cast … Continue reading
Photography in Fiction – Europa?
This is more a case of photography and fiction rather than photography in fiction. Photographs, in the form of ID images, make only a brief appearance, in the story ‘The AK-47 of pick-up Trucks’. ‘EUROPA? is a collaboration between a … Continue reading
Photography in Fiction – Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida — itinerant war photographer, who loves his trusted Nikon, also atheist, closet gay man and high stakes poker player – ‘has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office’. His dismembered body is … Continue reading
Photography in Fiction – I Could Read the Sky
I Could Read the Sky is a distinctive and rare integration of photography and fiction: it ‘is a collaboration in the shape of a lyrical novel, between writer Timothy O’Grady and photographer Steve Pyke’. In intense, often searing prose, it … Continue reading
Photography in Fiction: The Tribe That Lost Its Head
Browsing through an old diary yesterday, I came across the following entry: ‘Nicholas Monsarrat has just introduced two female characters into The Tribe That Lost its Head, photographers named Clandestine Lebourget and Noblesse O’Toole, would you believe.’ (16th December 1976). … Continue reading