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I am a camera

Articles, journal entries and images reflecting on places, often cities. The title is lifted from Christopher Isherwood: “I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”

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Dan Hill in I am a camera

Nov 27, 2006

The Damned Utd, by David Peace (2006)

David Peace’s ‘The Damned Utd’ (2006) is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary writer…

Dan Hill in I am a camera

Oct 6, 2010

‘Nairn’s London’, by Ian Nairn (1966)

The best guide book to London is not really a guide book to…

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Dan Hill in I am a camera

Feb 13, 2005

‘The Bloody Streets of Paris’ and ‘5 Is the Perfect Number’

Two recent comic books conjuring the…

Dan Hill in I am a camera

Jan 7, 2006

“Bleak House”, without A Foggy Day in London Town

Adapting Dickens, conveying London’s fog of…

Dan Hill in I am a camera

Jul 5, 2006

The city doesn’t need a sky

‘The Pushman and Other Stories’, by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (1969)

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Dan Hill in I am a camera

Apr 2, 2005

‘But Beautiful’ by Geoff Dyer

Quite simply, But Beautiful is one of the most astonishing books I’ve ever read. An impressionistic…

Dan Hill in I am a camera

Mar 14, 2002

Berlin: City of Stones

The city evoked in graphic novel

I’ve just finished reading the wonderful Berlin: City of Stones, by Jason Lutes. It’s book one of a history of Berlin, from September 1928 to May 1929. (Ed. This piece was originally published at…