{"product_id":"a-common-place-by-raymond-meeks","title":"A common place by Raymond Meeks","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Commonplace Book is Raymond Meeks's photobook of photographs selected not by Meeks himself but by John Gossage — a photographer who has long been an influence on Meeks's own way of seeing — published by Steidl. Gossage pulled individual pictures out of Meeks's archive, free of the sequence and narrative continuity that usually holds a Meeks book together, and gave each one its own page to stand on alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/5016\/0524\/files\/AcommonplacebyRaymondMeeks-5.jpg?v=1788273571\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGossage started from a specific realization: that Meeks had \"made some of the most stylistically various single pictures that I had ever seen in a serious photographer's work\" — a range that his own books, tightly sequenced and world-building, had been quietly folding into coherence all along. Pull one picture free of that world and look at it by itself, and the range shows. One frame reads like a diagram of loss:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Here is a box squared with knowing. About distance. About weight. The past, set against itself. Edges torn like the hem of a worn coat... The box feels heavy — not from what's inside, but from everything that's been taken out. From the memory of containment. The echo of holding.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA camera obscura. A sentry post. A confession booth. What Gossage assembled is, in his own words, a book \"of remarkable things, pictures that are as rich individually as they are in the narrative of Ray's books, but in a different way\" — variation held together, still, by the feel of a single author.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raymond Meeks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54814498455893,"sku":"COM-PLAD","price":58.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/5016\/0524\/files\/AcommonplacebyRaymondMeeks-1.jpg?v=1788273571","url":"https:\/\/www.tipi-bookshop.be\/products\/a-common-place-by-raymond-meeks","provider":"Tipi bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}