The Hollow of the Hand - Hardcover
Singer, songwriter, poet, and artist PJ Harvey has built a long and successful career by always pushing herself further, exploring her limits, and letting her curiosity lead her. In recent years, her interests have become more global, and her journeys for inspiration have sent her farther afield. Her friend and collaborator, the photographer Seamus Murphy, has twenty-five years of experience traveling the world and documenting it. For "The Hollow of the Hand, "the two set out together, to Kosovo and Afghanistan, and to Washington, D.C.: she would collect words, he would collect pictures, and together they would create an extraordinary chronicle of our life and times. Harvey and Murphy have collaborated previously: for her critically acclaimed record "Let England Shake," Harvey asked the artist to create short films to accompany each song, resulting in a sort of visual album to accompany the musical one. Here, these two socially conscious storytellers have built something together from the ground. "The Hollow of the Hand "marks the first publication of Harvey's impassioned poetry, in conversation with Murphy's indelible images: a landmark project. "The Hollow of the Hand "is available in two formats: a deluxe hardcover edition with highest quality photographic reproductions, and an accessibly priced reader's edition in paperback.""""
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review:
I loved The Hollow of the Hand, a distilled fusing of poems by PJ Harvey with photography from Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington, DC by Seamus Murphy to make a powerful alchemy, one that broadens the vision (Ali Smith)
Prepare to have your conscience shaken (Daily Telegraph)
Precision and a sense of artistry . Murphy's photographs have an ability to capture war without judgement . An uplifting exploration of a brutal subject (The Times)
Astonishing . Mesmerising . By turns harrowing, evocative, poignant and, yes, even humorous. Ultimately, the words and pictures are testament to undiminished human resilience . Spellbinding . Fascinating and occasionally disturbing (Sun)
Excellent . The imagery suggests an unhealing national bruise, one still so tender that blood might flow at any time ... At once celebratory and deflated . The Hollow of the Hand is a sincere and sincerely impressive collection (Independent)
Murphy's stories and films illuminate Harvey's crisply enunciated poems as well as his own arresting images . Punchy and vivid (Guardian)
Their combined reportage consists of a series of stark images, lyrical and visual . Pictures of airstrike aftermaths, and Afghans with faces like novels **** (Evening Standard)
A well-produced collaboration. Both contain striking imagery. Murphy - who has won seven World Press Photo awards - has an original eye and a storyteller's sense of an unfolding narrative (New Statesman Books of the Year)
This book is as handsomely produced as its subjects are in dire straits . Heartfelt and serious . Every picture tells a story . Murphy's eye unites one subject with the next. He is especially good at taking photographs of figures in a landscape overwhelmed by the vastness. I loved the extraordinary pictures of Afghanistan's beautiful, hostile and seemingly endless horizons (Observer)
The Hollow of the Hand, P. J. Harvey's and Seamus Murphy's book of poems and photographs, is haunting and elusive. Lyrical, song-like, declarative, the poems have a devastating directness; the photos are direct in a different key (Times Literary Supplement)
Careful reportage, combing the debris of war and strife for significant detail, meaningful resonances ... Charts a terrifying landscape of lost children and tidal waste, people discarded along with syringes and stray dogs . She communicates what she's seen with crisp concision, a few strong charcoal lines **** (Mojo)
A stirring art book for the rare soul who reaches back (O Magazine)
Emphasises the resilience and continuation of life amidst immense turmoil . Full of empathic insight and the central focus is on "common humanity" . In her collaborations with Murphy, Harvey is not only asking difficult questions, but pushing against the restrictions usually placed on artists to stay within a certain remit or medium (Quietus)
Extraordinary . A remarkable portfolio of images shared with the audience that, at times, have the ability to draw out the humour in the haunting . Deeply poignant **** (Morning Star)
Book Description:
Prepare to have your conscience shaken (Daily Telegraph)
Precision and a sense of artistry . Murphy's photographs have an ability to capture war without judgement . An uplifting exploration of a brutal subject (The Times)
Astonishing . Mesmerising . By turns harrowing, evocative, poignant and, yes, even humorous. Ultimately, the words and pictures are testament to undiminished human resilience . Spellbinding . Fascinating and occasionally disturbing (Sun)
Excellent . The imagery suggests an unhealing national bruise, one still so tender that blood might flow at any time ... At once celebratory and deflated . The Hollow of the Hand is a sincere and sincerely impressive collection (Independent)
Murphy's stories and films illuminate Harvey's crisply enunciated poems as well as his own arresting images . Punchy and vivid (Guardian)
Their combined reportage consists of a series of stark images, lyrical and visual . Pictures of airstrike aftermaths, and Afghans with faces like novels **** (Evening Standard)
A well-produced collaboration. Both contain striking imagery. Murphy - who has won seven World Press Photo awards - has an original eye and a storyteller's sense of an unfolding narrative (New Statesman Books of the Year)
This book is as handsomely produced as its subjects are in dire straits . Heartfelt and serious . Every picture tells a story . Murphy's eye unites one subject with the next. He is especially good at taking photographs of figures in a landscape overwhelmed by the vastness. I loved the extraordinary pictures of Afghanistan's beautiful, hostile and seemingly endless horizons (Observer)
The Hollow of the Hand, P. J. Harvey's and Seamus Murphy's book of poems and photographs, is haunting and elusive. Lyrical, song-like, declarative, the poems have a devastating directness; the photos are direct in a different key (Times Literary Supplement)
Careful reportage, combing the debris of war and strife for significant detail, meaningful resonances ... Charts a terrifying landscape of lost children and tidal waste, people discarded along with syringes and stray dogs . She communicates what she's seen with crisp concision, a few strong charcoal lines **** (Mojo)
A stirring art book for the rare soul who reaches back (O Magazine)
Emphasises the resilience and continuation of life amidst immense turmoil . Full of empathic insight and the central focus is on "common humanity" . In her collaborations with Murphy, Harvey is not only asking difficult questions, but pushing against the restrictions usually placed on artists to stay within a certain remit or medium (Quietus)
Extraordinary . A remarkable portfolio of images shared with the audience that, at times, have the ability to draw out the humour in the haunting . Deeply poignant **** (Morning Star)
The debut book by artist and writer PJ Harvey, in collaboration with film-maker and photographer Seamus Murphy, emerges as a one-of-a-kind collection of poetry and images
FINALIST IN THE PHOTO BOOK CATEGORY OF THE PICTURES OF THE YEAR AWARD
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherBloomsbury Pub Plc USA
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1408865297
- ISBN 13 9781408865293
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
- Rating
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
The Hollow of the Hand: Special Edition
Published by
Bloomsbury Specials
(2015)
ISBN 10: 1408865297
ISBN 13: 9781408865293
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Fine in fine slipcase. One of 250 exclusive box sets containing a special hardback edition plus an original photographic print and a hand-pressed poetry print, signed by the authors. Still in publisher s shrink wrap. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 99219
Buy Used
£ 795
Convert currency