Saturday 7 November 2009

Barbican Library, City of London - bursting with photography books . . .


















This is about the Barbican library; click on the blog-post title to go there. I discovered it a few years ago, around the time of a great exhibition just downstairs from it, In the Face of History - European Photographers in the 20th Century. Fab show, and the library's pretty cool too.
They have hundreds and hundreds of photography books (Robert Frank, Doisneau, Lange, Evans, Bailey, Atget, Donovan, Tillmans, scores of photographers I don't know after only four years of study at college. Gosh the list is endless).

Gasp, the books are on loads of shelves, so you don't have to ask for them . . . you can cruise their collection on-line, as far as I know . . .
Joining is easy. Show them the card from your area, and they'll give you a City of London card. Easy-peasy. All the books you wanted the college library to stock (Hello, Jean at Paddington campus !) Late opening hours, if I remember correctly, and very helpful staff. Starbucks is not far away, and so is the Barbican Concert Hall, lots of banks . . .

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