Hi, > There is, and has been a similar thing on the Swedish Radio as long as > I remember. What you say about the British broadcasts applies also to > the Swedish ones.
one of the particularly nice things about the book is that the captions are the shipping forecast for the sea area pictured on the date he took the picture. This way you can match the sound, the vision and the imagination. Incidentally, all the photos in the book are shot in square format, probably 6x6, and I would recommend them to all those people who find it a difficult format compositionally. There is a great deal of reference to Tony Ray-Jones, a sadly neglected but hugely influential British photographer, and one of my favourites. > I also seem to recall some photographer (or painter, or both) who > decided to visit all these "mysterious" places and document them in a > book. At the National Maritime Museum, close to where I live, they play a video loop similar to the book by Power. A cameraman was despatched to each sea area, and they simultaneously filmed a view pre-chosen by the artist/producer/editor Lucy Blakstad. Each snip of film is played back to the accompaniment of the shipping forecast for that area on that day. It's very hypnotic and interesting. It reminds me of Bruce Chatwin's phrase "the real Patagonia of my imagination". > It becomes a mantra thing - and as long as these reports keep coming > you know that the world is - at least in some respect - still out > there... well, perhaps an evil imp has been inventing the whole thing... --- Bob
