Harry Gruyaert: Between Worlds

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Prof David Alan Mellor investigates and explains the Anglo-American cultural contexts that drove Smith’s art, while Alex Massouras’s two themed essays, ‘Young and British’ and ‘From Motion Pictures to Flight’, explore Smith’s originality from fresh perspectives.

The artwork here reflects both the cultural and musical depth of Cuba as well as the political influence of revolutionary communism. And after the initial joy of growing comfortable with many layers of content, the question becomes: What is the relationship of all these layers to each other and then to us? Through the play of transparency and the mise en abyme of his images, Harry Gruyaert tells in Between Worlds the illusion of the world. Although Cyprus is a relatively small island, its position in the East Mediterranean has always given it strategic importance beyond its size.With a historical gazetteer, chronology of major events, index, bibliography and historical and contemporary maps, this book is an invaluable companion to students or visitors to the island.

Other images range from New York City to Israel to Belgium to Paris to Tokyo, Istanbul, Madrid, the Dominican Republic, Tunis. His powers of persuasion clearly exceeded those of Colonel Baker, who seemed the personification of Victorian solidity until that embarrassing incident in the sealed railway compartment, where he failed to entice Miss Dickinson to join in his bit of fun, and afterwards had to try and explain his conduct to the High Court, with the whole nation hanging on his every word.

If we lost touch with his sense of life, they thought, we lost an essential element in our self-understanding. His very intuitive and physical sense of place immerses the spectator in a world that borrows simultaneously from the cinematic universe and from that of the painter.

A note from FRAMES: if you have a forthcoming or recently published book of photography, please let us know. His intuitive and physical relationship to places immerses the spectator in a world that borrows from the cinematic universe and from that of the painter. A familiar theme, but one that, across the generations, can occasionally unearth something rather powerful. No matter the setting, the country or the era, Gruyaert deploys a luminous alchemy suspended in time.These images ask not so much for our emotional response as our participation with a multifaceted narrative that is not contained within any one layer.