David Hurn: Between the Lines
Photographer David Hurn’s book “On Reading” focuses on people engaged in the act of reading all over the world, in cafes, strip clubs, museums, or the seaside.
Reading is one of the most individual activities, but sometimes it happens in public. An avid reader himself, with George Orwell as a favourite, the photographer highlights the paradox of people absorbed in an inner world of concentration, reflection or imagination, as the world goes on around them in the most various situations.
New York USA 1962 © David Hurn / Magnum Photos
London, England, 1964. © David Hurn / Magnum Photos
Herne Bay. UK 1963 © David Hurn / Magnum Photos
New York. USA 2007 © David Hurn / Magnum Photos
Starting in the 1950, David Hurn kept photographing people reading, often while on assignment for other jobs, one of whom was shooting The Beatles on the set of A Hard Day's Night. He was inspired by a homonymous book by André Kertész, from whom he obtained permission to re-do a book with his same concept and title, when he got to the age of 89.
Paris. France. 1982 © David Hurn / Magnum Photos
Wales. 1986 © David Hurn / Magnum Photos
Dubrovnik, Croatia 1964 © David Hurn / Magnum Photos
The book “On Reading” is published by RRB Photobooks and available at the price of 35 £.
