
A Commonplace Book
- Publisher
- Steidl
- Year
- 2026
- ISBN
- 978-3-96999-525-9
- Specifications
- Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket
24.5 x 31.3 cm
120 pages
59 images
English
Edited by John Gossage
Co-published with The Agency, Hudson Valley
A Commonplace Book presents photographs by Raymond Meeks selected by John Gossage—a photographer who has been an enduring influence for Meeks, inspiring his approach and use of the camera to construct a picture untethered from sequence or narrative continuity. Here to discover is a breadth of visual style and approach, varied in form yet unified by a singular sensibility. Gossage’s initial impetus was his realization that Meeks had “made some of the most stylistically various single pictures that I had ever seen in a serious photographer’s work.” Meeks then supplied his pictures, from which Gossage made his edit and created a new context for them to be seen one at a time—“of remarkable things, pictures that are as rich individually as they are in the narrative of Ray’s books, but in a different way.”