{"id":11042,"date":"2020-07-05T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=11042"},"modified":"2020-07-04T09:54:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T09:54:56","slug":"gatherings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=11042","title":{"rendered":"Gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I wish Alan Lodge<\/em> (aka ‘Tash’) every success with his new book ‘Gatherings<\/em><\/a>‘, a large-format hardback he has published through Blurb, which looks to be a splendid compilation of his pictures of ‘Free Festivals, New Age Travellers, Police Actions and Surveillance. Multi-Cultural and Counter-Cultural. Non-mediated events the state would rather didn’t happen<\/em>!’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As he says on Blurb, ‘This is a coffee table hardback type book with 124 pages of quality photographic reproduction, printed on premium paper<\/em>‘ and being from Blurb and print on demand it comes at a premium price, which, together with postage will add to around a hundred notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not sure quite what proportion of those who took part in the events he catches the spirit of so well will now own coffee tables and be well-heeled enough to cough up for a copy of their past, though there is also a reasonably priced PDF available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can get a little idea of the book by looking at the few preview pages on Blurb and find out more about the photographer and his incredibly extensive work on One Eye on the Road<\/a> and in particular the large black and white galleries there<\/a> (and if you have Flash installed possibly from his more recent web site<\/a>.) You can also watch a page-through of his Stonehenge – Solstice Ritual Zine<\/a>, from a book he self-published in 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As readers will know, I’ve published a number of books through Blurb<\/a>, and though all rather smaller and cheaper than this, sales have always been held back by costs, which in particular prevent bookshop distribution. Booksellers need a high mark-up to keep in business and print-on-demand makes the resale price prohibitive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wish Alan Lodge (aka ‘Tash’) every success with his new book ‘Gatherings‘, a large-format hardback he has published through Blurb, which looks to be a splendid compilation of his pictures of ‘Free Festivals, New Age Travellers, Police Actions and Surveillance. Multi-Cultural and Counter-Cultural. Non-mediated events the state would rather didn’t happen!’ As he says … Continue reading Gatherings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2246,517,2250,85,2249,2247,2248,2253,2254,2255,2252,2251],"class_list":["post-11042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","tag-alan-ladge","tag-blurb","tag-counter-cultural","tag-events","tag-free-festivals","tag-gatherings","tag-hardback","tag-multi-cultural","tag-new-age-travellers","tag-non-mediated-events","tag-police-actions","tag-surveillance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11044,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042\/revisions\/11044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}