Don Mccullin Still Life Photography

The three books comprise over 1300 pages of print and more than 700 of his most iconic photographs and previously unpublished images curated by don and reproduced from vintage or wholly new prints made in his own darkroom.

Don mccullin still life photography. In november 2015 mccullin was named the photo london master of photography for 2016 at the launch of photo london an art fair due to open at somerset house in may 2016. Mccullin assembles these still life scenes in the peace of his garden. In somerset don mccullin. For mccullin still life and landscape were a deliberate sanctuary from the violence and pain of the war reportage for which he is best known.

He uses bronzes collected on assignments abroad as well as mushrooms and plums grown nearby. One of the 20 th century s greatest photographers. The stillness of life is a focused presentation of over 60 landscape photographs mapping sir don mccullin cbe s intimate relationship with the local landscape of somerset and continued passion for global travel since the 60s. Since the 1980s mccullin has engaged with traditions of still life photography in order to escape his memories of war.

At home in somerset sir don mccullin cbe talks about photographing the landscape ahead of his exhibition the stillness of life at hauser wirth somerset. In later years mccullin has turned to landscape still life works and commissioned portraits. This personal survey of over 60 landscape photographs includes scenes across the united kingdom europe and further afield revealing the photographer s innermost feelings through powerful compositions of wild heavens haunting.