This book features the work of Allan Jenkins who is well known for his fine art nude and still lifes.There are photography books and there are art books. This is definitely an art book. It follows a notebook type format and very much reminds me of Colin Blakemore's Photography Workshop. It is about art as a journey - as a means of feeling and expression. And again like Blakemore, the photography exhibited here is about photographing and rephotographing - constantly evolving your work - until you arrive at your destination. As Jenkins puts it "Accumulate, dissect, repeat and innovate."
The pages are laid out as if you are looking through Allan Jenkins' own notebooks. The photographs are inspiring. They are mainly Cyanotypes and have a very soft, gentle feel to them. The lighting is simple, but exceptional. The only drawback with Cyanotypes is that they are made using contact prints so their size is limited by the size of the negative. Using my large format camera, this means the prints are a maximum of 5x4.
