Yesterday I saw a fantastic exhibition at the October Gallery in Bloomsbury. It's only showing until the 20th August so I urge you to get over there to see it.As part of the centenary celebrations of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, photographer Jimmy Symonds has created 10 hand-made artist books for each decade from 1900. For this work Jimmy researched new words from each year, reducing the list until he finally produced this exhibition of one new word or phrase from each year illustrating it with a photo. Examples are 'avant-garde' , 'cloning', 'down-turn'. It is a fabulous project.
I'm gong back to take another look. Pity Jimmy hasn't published a book as this work is really worth being in your library.
