A five-star favorite over at amazon.com, we are proud to offer this little gem to Calumet customers. Mark Citret creates poetically pure and delightfully modest images out of the simplest of subject matters: an old phone book, a motel bathroom, shadows on snow, quarter-inch gaps in a cedar fence, an empty room...
As he states in his introduction, “If I hold any convictions at all as a photographer, foremost among them would be the belief that there are pictures lurking everywhere. They are concealed and camouflaged in the landscape that surrounds us, whether urban, rural, wild, or cultivated. The trick is finding those pictures.” And find them he does, with the consistency of a seasoned, solitary traveler. For, again in his words, “The events along the way are what give the journey its meaning.” It all adds up to great source of inspiration and a book you'll want to keep by your door, just to flip through each time you leave home and go out into the world.
Mark Citret teaches photography in both the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Cruz Extension programs, and, for the past 20 years, has had an architectural photography business in the San Francisco Bay Area. In his acknowledgements, he cites Willie Mays and Franz Shubert as inspirations.
