when I was new to photography, back in the 1980s when I was in my early 20s, I gravitated heavily to books about the craft and practice of photography. I then sort of moved on to philosophy and essays; all of which I enjoyed and derived a great deal from. And all the while I was getting a frequent fix of looking at photographs by going to a lot of exhibitions, and reading the off magazine or two. It was a huge amount of time later, my late 50s, that I started to seriously study the work of other photographers’ work through their photobooks.

Collecting them became an expensive practice.

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