“海边是怎么拍的?”从19世纪汹涌的浪潮到60年代的报告文学,从80&90年代的纪录片，再到近十年来可能更为私密的作品。没有人能准确地说出它的样子，每个地方都有属于自己独特的海边景色。摄影是一种独特、迷人，但最终却不可靠的证据来源。时间改变一切。剩下的是一组实质性的碎片组合:沿途的想法，痴迷，记录，建筑，旅程。

How has the seaside been photographed? From the roaring waves of the nineteenth century through the reportage of the 1960s and the critical documentary of the 80s and 90s, to what is perhaps the more intimate work of the last ten years. No-one can tell it exactly the way it is. We all have a vision of the seaside which is uniquely our own. Memories, false and real, are aided and abetted by photography, a unique, fascinating, but in the end unreliable source of evidence. And time changes everything. What remains are a set of substantial fragments, thoughts along the way, obsessions, records, constructions, journeys. Ours for the taking

Table of Contents

Introduction • Waves on the Beach • Shell Stories: Editing the Seaside from the Thirties to the Eighties • Seaside Bohemias • Reporting Back • Halcyon Days • Road Trips • Who’s Looking at the Family? Seaside Chronicles from Then until Now • Worlds in a Small Room: The Seaside Hotel • Gazing Up Close and from a Distance: Performing Studio Portraiture in the 21st Century • Undercurrents: Revising the Seaside from the Sixties to the Nineties