This book, like England, is generous, respectful and exploratory. The Winter Garden Photograph, which is foundational to the text, is described as a childhood image of Barthes’ recently deceased mother, Henrietta. England posed this query to a handful of colleagues, what to you is a reimagining, an homage or a reflection of this elusive photography? 

In this book group, Odette discusses, among other things:

The Winter Garden Photograph 

Englands’ process using: materiality, gesture and happenstance

a seeding question, and over 200 sprouting responses

the collection of essays contributed by a multitude of English contemporary photo curators and historians

Referenced in this episode 

A Photograph Never Stands Alone by Teju Cole

Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann

Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Carl Jung

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