Publications
Eton
Throughout 2006-2007 Ian lived as part of the Eton College community as artist-in-residence, teaching and making a photographic response to that environment. The book "Eton" represents his personal reflections to his time there.
The book contains 48 duotone black and white photographs with a text by Edward Dimsdale, himself a photographic Old Etonian and writer on the aesthetics of photography. The book is hard bound with a dust jacket, is 64 pages long and measures 300mmx245mm.
Price £30.00. (plus £6.00 postage and packing)
From the dustjacket.
"Eton has been photgraphed many times. More often than not, however, the perspective has been 'outside-in', whether the welcome visits by some of the greatest names in the history of the medium - Lazlo Moholy-Nagy and Henri Cartier-Bresson, to name but two - or rather the less welcome intrusions of the paparazzi. Paradoxically representing both inside and outside at one and the same time, this book has, in fact, far greater ambition than any of the more usual approaches." Ed Dimsdale
A limited edition gelatin-silver print is available, processed to full archival standards, to accompany 100 of the books each being contained in an envelope, book, envelope and print being housed in a hand made slip case.
Price £125.00.
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Smith's Dock Shipbuilders
This book details the final months of the last working shipyard on the river Tees at South Bank near Middlesbrough. Though predominantly a visual book its compelling text arises from taped interviews made by the artists from a wide selection of the workforce. Plans, maps and old photographs make up the rest of the body of the book.
Images of the Tees
This is a much more visual and reflective book and is essentially a statement about the river Tees estuary, much altered even in the lifetimes of the artists and is about how man has increasingly come to dominate his environment.
The books 'Smith's Dock Shipbuilders' and 'Images of the Tees' are both artists' collaborations between photographer, Ian Macdonald and painter, Len Tabner.
Blast Furnace
Long out of print, Blast Furnace is a booklet published to celebrate the 1986 exhibition 'Blast Furnace' itself being part of 'Industrial Heritage Year' at the Photographers' Gallery in London.
England Gone
A Creative Camera Monograph 3/1989 compiled by Peter Turner and Ian Macdonald uses photographs, drawings and poems by Phillip Larkin as a reflection of Ian's sense of loss experienced throughout his lifetime of some of our finest natural environments and also a certain sense of community.
Selected Other Publications Containing Ian Macdonald's Work
1. Ian's work is featured in several Creative Camera publications, including the International Year Book 1977, and the Magazines in 1980, 1986 and 1987 and the monograph 1989.
2. In the 'Art of Photography', a publication by Yale University Press (ed Mike Weaver) about the 150 year history of photography staged by the Royal Academy in 1989.
3. In 'Life' magazine 'World's Best Photographs' 1980-1990.
4. In the 'Independent' magazine 7 June 1989, an article entitled 'Man-Made Wilderness'.
5. A book jacket cover from 'Boom Boom Cluster' the David and Lisa Brown Bequest for Southampton City Art Gallery 2004.