Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics, this title explores a landscape under sentence of death and soon to be scorched by riots.
Combining the history of East End London with a personal quest, this book weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky - which took her to Poland, Israel and around Jewish London - with Iain Sinclair's meditations on her journey into her own past.
Shifting from Hackney to Hastings and all places in-between, while dissecting a man's fractured psyche piece by piece, this book is a puzzle and a quest - for both writer and reader. It is a sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environs.
The Thames runs through Downriver like an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants. Commissioned to document the shifting embankments of industry and... Læs mere
Iain Sinclair follows in the footsteps of photographer John Deakin in a bold fictionalisation.