Dark Room

Garry Fabian Miller's Dark Room is a photography book that explores the artist's life between the dark and the light, weaving a personal account against the history of photography. It charts Miller's work over five decades, from camera-based practice to abstract picture-making, and features an essay by Edmund de Waal and technical notes by Martin Barnes.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 16 March 2023
Publisher: Bodleian Library

Garry Fabian Miller's Dark Room is a photography book that stands out from all others. At its core, the artist presents a deeply personal account, woven against the history of photography, from its birth in the 1830s to its decline, and, some would argue, its death, in the digital age, almost two hundred years later. It is a memoir that reads at times like a manifesto, at others like a confession; a final testament to the dark room as both a site for imagination and a physical space for the alchemy that William Henry Fox Talbot once described as 'a little bit of magic realized.'

Dark Room charts Miller's work over five decades, shifting from a camera-based practice in his early career to the abstract picture-making for which he has become internationally recognized. Working without a camera, he experimented with the possibilities of light as both medium and subject. At its core is the relationship with nature and place that has sustained his way of life, and specifically with his home on Dartmoor and the cycle of daily walks that have been at the core of his practice for thirty years.

The book also features an essay on Miller's work by his friend, the potter, and writer Edmund de Waal, and technical notes by Martin Barnes, senior photography curator of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Weight: 1148g
Dimension: 196 x 250 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781851246090