Book research- Colin grey

Colin Gray began to take photographs of his parents in the 60s when he was 5 years old. At family occasions, holidays and celebrations Gray would be allowed one shot from the single roll of film in a square box Brownie Twin. Over the next three decades he has accumulated an extensive body of work documenting his parents loving, working, homemaking and playing.The book 'in sickness and in health' is the final body of work based around his parents. it shows the final deteriaton and finishes with the death of his mother.  This book is rather interesting as it almost in some way relates to my work. taking this theme of wedding vows and the idea of 'in sickness and in health' when we see the deteriation of his parents, and also the continuation which would be 'till death us do part' which ironically is how the book ends.

The front cover of this book is rather simplistic and very ponyant, as well as very respectful as its clear that what is inside is personal, it almost could look like a diary, and in a sence it is a photographic diary of the last few years of his parents lives.

 What i find rather interesting is that it does use imagery very well, but also the use of white space is good. With some simple pages are left blank with all but the text, it makes the audience focus on what is being said.

 Ironically Grey also uses mirrors, square crops as well as this idea of slight repetition in shapes or themes. which is highly like some of the factors that i have encorperated in my imagery.

 Most of greys images are laid out in the repetitious way of equal sized square cropped images opposing another. These images below, and many of the others in Greys book just go to show the emotion and impact that such a pairing could have.  each of his images are very well thought out and very well composed so the images compliment each other even if they are not similar in subject, such at the pairing below. where the images suggest the agony the mother is going through in comparison to a younger self. as well as this, he matches well the colours the pale pink of her skin and the colour of the wall paper, as well as the prominance of her wedding band in the portrait of her.