A Pound of Pictures Thomas Demand Secret Games

Secret Games

or as a minor history of car design and vernacular architecture

The book combines these modern portraits with gig flyers and Templeton’s own teenage journal entries from the mid to late 80s

depict ideas inspired by it

contains portraits of his elderly mother sitting in her chair in a retirement community in England

A Pound of Pictures Thomas Demand Secret GamesA Pound of Pictures is a stream of consciousness celebration of the photographic medium, bringing together an entirely new collection of work by Alec Soth made between 2018 and 2021. Depicting a sprawling array of subjects from Buddhist statues and birdwatchers to sun seekers and busts of Abe Lincoln this book reflects on the photographic desire to pin down and crystallise experience, especially as it is represented and recollected by printed images.