If These Apples Should Fall: Cezanne and the Present looks back on Cezanne from a moment – our own – when such judgments may seem to need justifying. His powers of persuasion clearly exceeded those of Colonel Baker, who seemed the personification of Victorian solidity until that embarrassing incident in the sealed railway compartment, where he failed to entice Miss Dickinson to join in his bit of fun, and afterwards had to try and explain his conduct to the High Court, with the whole nation hanging on his every word. With a historical gazetteer, chronology of major events, index, bibliography and historical and contemporary maps, this book is an invaluable companion to students or visitors to the island.

A picture from New York City in 2020 is again a combination of direct vision, obscured vision, reflection, perhaps even reflections of reflections. If we lost touch with his sense of life, they thought, we lost an essential element in our self-understanding. Another image from is from Madrid in 1993 and appears to be taken outside a subway car, through a sheet of glass to a man and a woman sitting inside the car. Although Cyprus is a relatively small island, its position in the East Mediterranean has always given it strategic importance beyond its size. The green walls the red chair are a compositionally wonderful pairing, the frame within a frame of the glassless window isolates the narrative outside.Over the past century, Cuban music has produced a seemingly endless variety of styles―rumba, mambo, son, salsa―at a dizzyingly fast rate. A good photo is a photo that says a lot of things about the place and the moment it was taken,” says Gruyaert. There is the story from the observer, the story from the two inside the car (the looks on their faces speak volumes), the story from the four the far distance.

And we also have in the window the reflection of what is behind the photographer – trees and cars and street signs. Hilariously funny, sometimes rather sad, but invariably interesting, this is a superbly diverting book. His intuitive and physical relationship to places immerses the spectator in a world that borrows from the cinematic universe and from that of the painter. After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the new government closed American-owned nightclubs and consolidated the island’s recording industry under a state-run monopoly.Through the play of transparency and the mise en abyme of his images, Harry Gruyaert tells in Between Worlds the illusion of the world. Meet Monsieur Benoit, who appeared suddenly in Paris with a scheme for telegraphing messages across the world (or, at least, across the room) by means of electricity and the telepathic power of snails, and actually raised the money to build this extraordinary machine. Between Worlds, Gruyaert’s new book, is a deeply wonderful new collection of images taken throughout his career. Harry Gruyaert: Between Worlds dissolves the boundaries between exterior and interior spaces, a closed world and one that is open to elsewhere. He is the only artist of his stature who has not been represented by a monograph, which the dazzling presentation of images in Richard Smith: Artworks now fulfils.

A penetrating analysis of the work of one of the most influential painters in the history of modern art by one of the world’s most respected art historians. One of the things that’s fascinating about this collection is the way every image has multiple narrative lines. He has had the good fortune to travel widely, and whether he’s taking images in Belgium or Morocco, London or Paris, airports or alleys, it’s not that he sees things differently. In this book, the intimate perspective and the passage of time reveal the unknown truths about a man, a family and an entire country.That he latterly slipped under the radar to some extent is partly explained by his detachment from the mainstream as well as by his frequent switching of studios between England and the USA, although this helped charge his creative batteries.