The Fall (and my camera) - Lars Schwander

The Fall (and my camera) by Lars Schwander / 64 pages, 7 x 8.25 inches, staplebound / published by At Last Books (Denmark) / ISBN 9788799966783

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'The Fall (and my camera)' is a documentation of, four meetings between danish photographer Lars Schwander and the the british band The Fall. 72 never before seen outtakes, by “the worlds’ best photographer” according to Mark E Smith, of sessions that ended up on the covers for Call For Escape Route EP and Bend Sinister. “We all go outside, into the daylight, and I look for a spot with a uniform background. I find a wall at the side of the SAS Hotel, but it’s not the large single-coloured surface that I’m looking for. There are these cubes behind, the concrete elements of the building, that somehow give one great rhythmic structure. Like a great Fall track, the structure initially feels like a nuisance, but later I have to admit it has given the images a distinctive language. The photos express themselves, and are of their moment. You never doubt that they came from this session, this time, this place.”