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| Photo: Phil Underdown |
One of the great joys I recently had at a Photo Book Club event in SF was coming upon Phil Underdown's book called Grassland.
And a joy is exactly what it is- both to hold and behold. It's a
precious little thing- precious, not pretentious; it has a child's
wonder about it, the magic of seeing things for the first time. The
colors are bright and cheery (unlike the somewhat washed out jpegs
online), but not overbearing; and despite the fact that each of its
twenty or so photographs are run across the gutter, they're printed on
weighty stock that unfold flat out into uninterrupted 4X6 images. The
result is one petite photo exhibit of portable joy and pleasure that you
can pocket anywhere!
There
is one not insignificant drawback however- mainly, that it is simply no
longer available. In a world of instantly forgettable and
interchangeable images, this uniquely original book, this small and
wondrous artifact, made for one very personal and memorable
experience...
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