The Photographic Work of Robin Broadbent

Published by Damiani in 2017, The Photographic Work of Robin Broadbent collects two decades of the photographer's still-life abstractions, distilling everyday objects into stark, reductive forms that blur the line between fashion image-making and studio experiment.

The book's 184 pages sequence 100 color and 60 black-and-white plates in which pills, crayons, pipettes, combs, and a single oversized gold tooth are photographed against plain grounds until scale and material dissolve into pure line and shadow. Broadbent sequenced the book with designer Doug Lloyd; it opens unusually with a short story by the novelist Frederic Tuten and closes with three pages of notes listing studio equipment and the surfaces objects were shot against.

British-born and based in New York since 1999, Broadbent built his reputation shooting for Vogue, Numéro, Harper's Bazaar, and the New York Times Magazine. This volume is his third book, following the earlier black-and-white series Marmalade (1998) and Minus Sixteen (1999), and marks his first survey of personal and editorial work assembled as a single monograph.