{"product_id":"the-importance-of-elsewhere-philip-larkins-photographs","title":"The Importance of Elsewhere: Philip Larkin's Photographs","description":"\u003cp\u003eLarkins photographs not only illustrate his poems - they explain and deepen them ... superlative  succinct and subtle biographical commentary.The Times The most widely read British poet of the twentieth century  Philip Larkin was also a keen amateur photographer and through his life he made images of the people  places and things that meant most to him. The Importance of Elsewhere gathers the best of Larkins photographic work  divided into short thematic chapters arranged in chronological order. Written by Richard Bradford  the acclaimed author of the Larkin biography First Boredom  Then Fear  the book shows how Larkin  as an individual  as a writer and indeed as a photographer  developed an acute sensitivity to all aspects of the world around him  from his love of open uninhabited landscapes and empty churches to his mixed feelings about crowds. There are also fascinating portraits of those people who were closest to Larkin  including his lovers  his mother and his literary peers. The book beautifully reproduces more than 200 images from the Larkin archive at Hull: the majority have never previously been seen in print. A substantial foreword by Mark Haworth-Booth  formerly curator of photography at the V\u0026amp;A  explores what it meant to be a serious amateur photographer of Larkins generation. Together with Larkins literary works and his letters  these images make up the third  so far unseen  constituent of the material upon which our future perceptions of him will be based.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987651391541,"sku":"ByrdShop_0711236313","price":77.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780711236318.jpg?v=1770950923","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-importance-of-elsewhere-philip-larkins-photographs","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}