{"product_id":"workbooks-1984-2024-nigel-shafran","title":"Workbooks 1984-2024 - Nigel Shafran","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWorkbooks is an extensive book that gathers together a creative lifetime of collecting, imagining, sketching and recording by British artist Nigel Shafran from 1984-2024. Below, writer David Chandler reflects on Shafran\u003cspan lang=\"JA\"\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es Workbooks:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBooks have been the principal means through which Nigel Shafran\u003cspan lang=\"JA\"\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es photographic work has become known. He understands the gift of their materiality and he has invested heavily in how his books look and in how they are made. It is ingrained in a process that sees his photographs, soon after they \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eare made, printed, edited and stuck into the pages of bound volumes that are part workbook, part diary, part aide-memoire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese working documents are informal books, partly in preparation for decisions that will later define the actual publications, they are carefully assembled and richly embellished. Each is filled with drawings, notes and bits of everyday ephemera as well as photographs, and each has a particular aesthetic, with an easy feeling for material craft as well as visual simplicity and clarity that is characteristic of Shafran\u003cspan lang=\"JA\"\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es intuitive organising principles and his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eentire working process. \u003cspan lang=\"JA\"\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003e David Chandler\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLoose Joints, 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tenderbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56785003413890,"sku":"TB04","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0463\/8313\/6933\/files\/NigelShafranWorkbooks-2.jpg?v=1784823606","url":"https:\/\/nepentheslondon.com\/products\/workbooks-1984-2024-nigel-shafran","provider":"Nepenthes London","version":"1.0","type":"link"}