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Colin Greenwood talks through photographs at the V&A
first posted on Treefingers by Miro · rewritten for the archive
The Victoria and Albert Museum's Exploring Photography site carries a personal tour by Colin Greenwood, in which he talks through a run of pictures from its collection. He recorded it in 1998, speaking of a bullet-train ride earlier that year, and the page has been online since at least July 2003. It opens with Paul Martin's platinum print Magazine Seller, Ludgate Circus, 1900.
Of Hannah Starkey's Untitled, May 1997, a messy room under hard light, he says it looks just like a Radiohead dressing room after a show, when fans come back to meet a band who have already gone home.
we would always clean up the mess after we've made it.
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