To celebrate the recent publication of Shadows of Reality: A Catalogue of W.G. Sebald’s Photographic Materials (Boiler House Press) and what would have been Sebald’s 80th birthday, we invite you to a reading of his work by writers, contributors to the book, his friends, and colleagues. The readings will be accompanied by images and photographs that chronicle the places, people, and events that shaped his writing life. Also featuring archive recordings, the event will be an opportunity to explore and re-explore some of Sebald’s creative preoccupations, and his tireless and wide-ranging fascination with photography.
Ticket includes a free glass of wine on arrival.
Doors open at 6pm for a 6.30pm start.
Shadows of Reality: A Catalogue of W.G. Sebald’s Photographic Materials
Eds. Clive Scott & Nick Warr
The first-ever volume of the photographs of W.G. Sebald, exquisitely designed to shed new light on his creative process, as it chronicles the places, people, and events that shaped his writing life.
A comprehensive and fully illustrated catalogue, the book contains an extraordinary combination of film negatives, prints and slides from the University of East Anglia’s photographic collections, the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach and the Sebald Estate. It reveals, in a compelling and visually innovative way, the story behind each of the images and their often surprising origins. Accompanying the photographic materials are a sequence of new essays, an interview with Brandon-Jones and other photographic pieces, which all offer different and revealing insights into Sebald’s life-long preoccupation with photographs – with their versatility, expressivity and their multiple narrative and poetic powers. Find out more →
Image: Sebald posing as Dr Henry Selwyn. Photograph taken in Jan Peter Tripp’s garden, Mittelbergheim, c. 1988
A partnership between British Archive of Contemporary Writing, CreativeUEA and National Centre for Writing.
