Philip Larkin’s astute pictures do a tantalising companion to his verseIn October 1947,Philip Larkin wrote to his friend Jim Sutton approximately a recent “act of insanity” – he had spent £7 on a camera. The British-made Purma Special had cost him more than a week’s wages, but it was state of the art compared with his previous model, and a box camera that had been given to him by his father in 1937,when Larkin was 15.I am so far awaiting my first roll of results,” Larkin told Sutton in the same letter. “If they are outrageous, and I shall feel I have been rather a fool.”Continue reading...
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