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December 01, 2007
Michael Nyman on "open expanses" and photography
Michael Nyman talks about his "favourite home" with Emma Jacobs at the FT, as well as photographs. You are a keen photographer and your house is full of photos. Who do you collect? "I’ve got an Italian publishing company who are about to publish a book of my photos. I’m scared of publishing them. It’s like writing a piece of music and not having the nerve to play it. I’ve been shooting videos over a 
number of years. I recently had a one-day exhibition in a gallery in Dusseldorf. I liked the brevity of the exhibition. I have prints by Mike Disfarmer, who lived and worked in Heber Springs, Arkansas, in the 1930s and 1940s as well as Miroslav Tichy, who lives in a little town near Kynov, Czech Republic. Their prints face each other in my sitting room. They have a lot in common and a lot not in common. Both are small-town photographers who took pictures of people. Disfarmer took photos in controlled studio settings of people in uniforms or Sunday best. Tichy was the opposite and was an outsider who had been imprisoned by communists. He made his own cameras and took pictures almost exclusively of women. They are insolent photos though not obscene. My aim is to make some kind of musical piece bringing both photographers together. I find the connections fascinating." [Portrait © by Perou.]
Posted by Ray Pride at December 1, 2007 06:08 PM
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