You may already follow photographer Eamonn McCabe’s unique Guardian series Writers’ Rooms. Every Saturday a writers’ room is featured in all its glory, often answering the much asked question – Do you write on a typewriter, a computer or with just a pencil?
But more than that these portraits satisfy our curiosity about the environments the great works we love have been written in and the intriguing, even surprising surroundings of the writers who labour away in them.
Books, post-its, paintings, pets and socks!
Visit a collection of Eamonn McCabe’s photographs of writers’ rooms including those of Will Self, Seamus Heaney and VS Naipaul at the Madison gallery until January 17.
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Sally Crawford // December 7, 2008 at 2:23 pm
This is a new central London gallery – and what an exhibition to start things off with!
I will be visiting this coming week and look forward to leaving a comment on the blog.
When I first discovered this series it was a big step towards demolishing the mystique of ‘the writer’, especially if you look at, say, George Bernard Shaw’s writing hut (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/may/30/writers.rooms.george.bernard.shaw): it’s an office.
Sally // December 11, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Eamonn McCabe’s Writers’ Rooms
Saw it: brilliant.
Some 21 archival digital prints, printed and signed by the artist, at £500 a pop.
Creates lots of fellow feeling when you see where and how other writers write.
Radiance Strathdee // December 18, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Love the rooms Eamonn but golly gosh how posh Love Radiance