David Hurn's photographs of people reading - in pictures

[cbabe]

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/jan/11/couldnt-put-it-down-david-hurns-photographs-of-people-reading-in-pictures

David Hurn’s photographs of people reading – in pictures

In 1983 David Hurn met one of his photographic heroes, André Kertész , and jokingly suggested that, when he reached Kertész’s age of 89, he would remake his seminal volume, On Reading. True to his word, the Magnum photographer has now done so. Wherever Hurn travelled as a photojournalist, he took images of people reading books, magazines and, lately, on mobile phones. “One of the things that happens in every country in the world is people read,” he says. “It’s lovely to read – the touch of the paper, the ease of being able to check back a few pages. But we’re at a time now where we’re not quite sure whether, in the future, books on paper are going to disappear.”
David Hurn’s On Reading is published by RRB Photobooks (£35)

Kathryn Bromwich
Sat 11 Jan 2025 12.00 EST

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The Beatles during the filming of A Hard Day’s Night, London, 1964.

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(Photos at link)

[question everything]

1. Nice to see some print books

[Fla Dem]

2. Those were the days when people read the actual print copies of books newspapers and magazines.

[JoseBalow]

3. I've never read an E-book

I'm at my local library at least twice a month.

[hermetic]

4. Nice!!

Thanks. For years I took the bus to work and back and always read a book during that 30 or so minutes. Then my lunch hour would find me in the park across the street, reading.

[cbabe]

5. A friend would read standing at the kitchen counter

so her kids would leave her alone. They thought she was fixing dinner.

Buses are good. Trains, also. And park benches. Cheers!