MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Visual time capsules
MICHAL BONCZA sees an exhibition of photography that offers intriguing glimpses of Britain
(Left) Untitled, (Right) Untitled
[Huxley-Parlour] 
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Jamie Hawkesworth: The British Isles, 2007-2020
Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON once said: “A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos,” adding elsewhere that “it is an illusion that photos are made with the camera … they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
There is ample evidence here that Jamie Hawkesworth fully concurs as the work effectively displays much of the approach advocated by Cartier-Bresson. Particularly noticeable is the uniformly sublime composition, robust in appearance and mostly in close up which mesmerises.
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