Dan Holdsworth

by Angus Carlyle, David Chandler, Dan Holdsworth (Photographer)

Office buildings after work, car parks at night, and deserted motorway such moments and subjects are preserved through the photographs of British artist, Dan Holdsworth. Since the late 90s, Holdsworth has developed a reputation as one of the most innovative British photographers currently working with landscapes. His early series concentrated on the quiet moments in everyday spaces and such subjects are the basis for Holdsworth's more recent examination of technology and isolation in modern society. Over the past few years he has traveled internationally, studying the areas where technology and architecture are representative of an accelerated economic world at their most removed and alien. The photographs are silent and iconic witnesses of our world. Collected here are 80 beautifully reproduced images spanning more than a decade of Holdworth's career.

Hardcover

First published June 1, 2005

About the author

Angus Carlyle has an educational background within the humanities, studying law as an undergraduate, earning a masters in political theory, focusing his doctorate on the conditions of vocalised political exchange.

His subsequent theoretical trajectories engaged with cyberculture, photography and architecture then shifted towards its current pre-occupation with the sensory inhabitations of environments and their representations, with a particular emphasis on sound. A significant dimension of this exploration has been conducted through such creative practices as experimental textual production and field recording, with the texts and recordings contributing to collaborative and solitary projects.

For over a decade, he has worked with anthropologist Rupert Cox, co-creating films, installations and compositions – alongside academic texts - that seek to address the sonic experiences of living under civilian and military flight paths in situations where the echoes of history are palpable.