Title: Occasional Sights

Date: 2002

Medium: Printed book

Artist: Anna Best

Exhibition: Notes of an Urban Pedestrian, 2019

From press release:

The guidebook was produced as a commission from The Photographers’ Gallery, London. The book leads the reader to sites in London where fleeting and memorable things have been noticed but are no longer there. It is an anti-guidebook in the sense of lacking memorials and plaques. Over the period of a year, I looked for every time I went out to approach people in the street for stories of things they might have seen that aren’t always there, things that are transient or that happen only now and again…it might be a puddle that only appears when there is so much rain, or an impromptu art under Blackfriars Bridge, or a dropped ice cream on the pavement. I gathered anecdotes, images, drawings. I wrote interesting encounters and made a book that works alphabetically by area, but almost an anti-guidebook in that many of the things wouldn’t be there if you went back to find them. I also didn’t want the book to be seen as the end of the project, something too final, but a tool to use to explore London, or anywhere in fact, in a different way.

Also, reading by Anna Best from her book Marjan–Limestone Interruptions, 2019.

From artist:

My archive is here and the link to the project I read from in the Square. https://archive.annabest.info/limestone

Website:

https://annabest.info

Instagram:

@annabestee