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Chris Shaw spent ten years working in London hotels, all the while using his camera to both document the hotels' unexpected human spectacles and keep himself awake through the long hours of his shift. Whether capturing prostitutes waiting between "Johns," weary hotel staff, the inebriated and profligate guests, or the details of the hotels' faded grandeur, Shaw's images transcend the physical boundaries of a place, and instead capture a state of mind in which few people would choose to stay more than a night. The thing I like most about the pictures is the large element of what I call the "chance meeting," the times I was so tired I lost the artifice and techniques of photography. I just took photographs to keep me awake. It became artless. The people I photographed, these episodes in the social fantastic would heighten and illuminate my whole night, often making a difficult job and my twelve-hour shift bearable.

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Book category Books in English The arts Photography & photographs Photographs: collections

• Full title: Chris Shaw
• Author: Chris Shaw
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 64
• EAN: 9781931885508
• ISBN: 1931885508
• ID: 02365615
• Publisher: TWIN PALMS PUBL
• Weight: 1433 g
• Dimensions: 425 × 305 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. October 2006

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