{"product_id":"the-stillness-of-life","title":"The Stillness of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eMcCullin's has been creating still life arrangements in his garden shed at home in Somerset since the early 1980s.Each still life has been lyrically constructed with the natural-cut flowers (lilies, fox-gloves, gladioli), fruit or fungi-often presented alongside beloved mementos of his travels; a bronze dragon from the orient, a junk shop vase, a Hindu goddess. He arranges disparate inanimate objects with fruits and flowers as a kind of shrine to pay respect to the idea of transience versus permanence. These self-styled altars act as a homage to beauty, to the changing seasons and the fleeting passage of time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe landscapes in the book are gathered from throughout McCullin's career-from early photographs of the Industrial North of the UK, to India, Africa and more recent images taken closer to home. Shot to enhance a metallic light, lowering skies and the denuded trees; there can be a sense of foreboding and desolation in the landscapes, as if the photographer were contemplating the aftermath of a battle scene. Vast eternities are suggested in his expanses of desert sand and biblical drama in his silver-edged cloudscapes. Any figures in the frame are incidental and merely contribute to the composition-a departure from the human-focused documentary work for which McCullin became known.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardback | 180 pages | Published October 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63970781659485,"sku":"9781915423948","price":100.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/content_1e300120-35ff-462a-9a27-86105cf195e3.png?v=1774377185","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/the-stillness-of-life","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}