First edition of A Commonplace Book by Raymond Meeks (2026)
First impression
Large format hardback in new condition
120 pages, 59 images
Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket
24.5 x 31.3 cm
English
Co-published with The Agency, Hudson Valley
About
A Commonplace Book presents photographs by Raymond Meeks selected by John Gossagea photographer who has been an enduring influence for Meeks, inspiring his approach and use of the camera to construct a pictureuntethered from sequence or narrative continuity. Here to discover is a breadth of visual style and approach, varied in form, unified by a singular sensibility. Gossages initial impetus for the book was his realization that Meeks had made some of the most stylistically various single pictures that I had ever seen in a serious photographers work. Meeks then agreed to supply his pictures, from which Gossage made his edit and created a new context for them to be seen one at a time. And so was born, in Gossages words, this commonplace book of remarkable things, pictures that are as rich individually as they are in the narrative of Rays books, but in a different way. They stand as convincing in a style of variation with certainty, always having the feel and thought of a single author.
