{"id":103483,"date":"2017-04-04T12:21:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T11:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/?p=103483"},"modified":"2017-04-04T14:04:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T13:04:55","slug":"book-review-the-dench-dozen-by-peter-dench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/book_reviews\/book-review-the-dench-dozen-by-peter-dench\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: The Dench Dozen by Peter Dench"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_103486&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-103486 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chris-Floyd-The-Dench-Dozen-cowgirl.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Floyd The Dench Dozen cowgirl\" width=\"1000\" height=\"751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/Chris-Floyd-The-Dench-Dozen-cowgirl.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/Chris-Floyd-The-Dench-Dozen-cowgirl.jpg?resize=135,100 135w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/Chris-Floyd-The-Dench-Dozen-cowgirl.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/Chris-Floyd-The-Dench-Dozen-cowgirl.jpg?resize=533,400 533w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/Chris-Floyd-The-Dench-Dozen-cowgirl.jpg?resize=900,676 900w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/Chris-Floyd-The-Dench-Dozen-cowgirl.jpg?resize=562,422 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Dench&#8217;s interview with documentary and portrait photographer Chris Floyd is revealing.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>Subtitled <em>Great Britons of Photography Vol.1<\/em>, this is a collection of interviews with leading documentary and fine-art photographers from these shores, along with a few who have become British by association (such as Canadian Homer Sykes). Asking the questions is Peter Dench, a flamboyant and bibulous documentary photographer who\u2019s also a long-standing contributor to <em>Hungry Eye<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Dench\u2019s interview list reads like a Who\u2019s Who of leading contemporary names, and includes Martin Parr, Brian Griffin, Marcus Bleasdale and regular AP contributor, Harry Borden.<\/p>\n<p>There are some redoubtable characters in this line-up, but Dench is never one to be easily cowed. The unattributed promo blurb on the back of the book says it all.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Dench has done it. His intimate, acute and heroically revealing insights into the lives and work of some of British photography\u2019s most colourful characters, is an instant classic.\u2019 Dench himself gets interviewed later in the book, too.<\/p>\n<p>As an award-winning documentary photographer, Dench comes at his subjects in a different way than a more generalist writer who lacks any personal experience of the pleasures, pains and unique challenges of being a full-time visual artist in 2017. There are no cheesy questions or toe-curling requests for \u2018five tips to help readers take better photographs.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Instead, a good chunk of the interviews is taken up with details of the venue \u2013 often a pub or restaurant \u2013 along with more general anecdotes from the subject\u2019s life. Dench is a convivial character, and he tends to have the liveliest interviews with subjects who are also imbibing \u2013 his one-to-one with the portrait photographer Chris Floyd is a good example. When Dench isn\u2019t distracted by what he\u2019s drinking or his immediate environment, the insights come thick and fast, and the book\u2019s strengths shine through. Here he is talking to <em>National Geographic<\/em> shooter, Marcus Bleasdale. \u2018By the age of 30, Bleasdale was being paid half a million pounds a year, owned several properties and drove a Porsche 911. He packed it all in for photography. Why would he leave?&#8230; The answer is because he is angry and the driving force behind that anger is the statistics. \u201cMore than 5.4 million already dead from conflict in the Congo since 1998; the largest death toll since the Second World War. Photography is a tool, a method to inform people what is going on in the country.\u201d\u2019 At one point, Dench reveals how he and Bleasdale got bored during the interview, and went outdoors for a fight \u2013 we\u2019re a long way from Melvyn Bragg territory here.<\/p>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_103487&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-103487 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chris-Floyd-The-Dench-Dozen-people-in-beachwear.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Floyd The Dench Dozen people in beachwear\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/Chris-Floyd-The-Dench-Dozen-people-in-beachwear.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/Chris-Floyd-The-Dench-Dozen-people-in-beachwear.jpg?resize=135,100 135w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/Chris-Floyd-The-Dench-Dozen-people-in-beachwear.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/Chris-Floyd-The-Dench-Dozen-people-in-beachwear.jpg?resize=533,400 533w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/Chris-Floyd-The-Dench-Dozen-people-in-beachwear.jpg?resize=900,675 900w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/Chris-Floyd-The-Dench-Dozen-people-in-beachwear.jpg?resize=562,422 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Never one to be outdone, Dench himself gets interviewed in the book.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<h2>Me, myself, I<\/h2>\n<p>The main weakness of <em>The Dench Dozen<\/em> is that he sometimes gets in the way of the subject and becomes an intrusive voice. Dench\u2019s asides, frequently alcohol, food or travel-related, can get tiresome and repetitive after a while. Take his piece on John Bulmer. \u2018\u201cA New World Wine,\u201d I declare, as I tsunami the welcome taste back over my tongue.\u2019 One ends up being thankful that Dench chose photography as a career, rather than wine writing.<\/p>\n<p>You also get the sense that the conversation petered out a bit when his subjects weren\u2019t taking part in any liquid lunch \u2013 the Martin Parr and Brian Griffin interviews being good examples. Both feel a bit perfunctory considering their long and fruitful photographic careers. Having interviewed Parr on three occasions, I know he can be quite taciturn and reserved, but it would have been nice if Dench could have come away with some insightful quotes about his photography. The lists of Parr trivia we get instead don\u2019t really compensate for this.<\/p>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_103488&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-103488 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/John-Bulmer-image-The-Dench-Dozen-.jpg\" alt=\"John Bulmer image The Dench Dozen\" width=\"1000\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/John-Bulmer-image-The-Dench-Dozen-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/John-Bulmer-image-The-Dench-Dozen-.jpg?resize=300,205 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/John-Bulmer-image-The-Dench-Dozen-.jpg?resize=586,400 586w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/John-Bulmer-image-The-Dench-Dozen-.jpg?resize=900,615 900w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/John-Bulmer-image-The-Dench-Dozen-.jpg?resize=562,384 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">A characteristically evocative image by colour pioneer, John Bulmer.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>While there are some fascinating subjects in the book, there are also some surprising omissions. Where is Dougie Wallace, for example, another larger- than-life photographer who would have been an excellent foil to Dench (and probably drunk him under the table). Or Giles Duley, another richly storied British photographer, or, of course, Don McCullin&#8230; Hopefully some of these luminaries will turn up in Volume Two.<\/p>\n<p>On a more practical note, the images throughout the book are well curated and nicely printed, but it\u2019s a shame there are no captions to provide context..<\/p>\n<p>To conclude, <em>The Dench Dozen<\/em> is something of a Marmite project. Dench\u2019s fans will lap it up, and it\u2019s refreshing to see some big names being interviewed in a different way to the usual predictable Q &amp; A. More agnostic readers, who\u2019ve coughed up a hefty 50 quid to learn more about top British photographers, might end up wishing for a more conventional interview approach.<\/p>\n<h2>SCORE: 3 out of 5<\/h2>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-103490\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Dench-Dozen-cover.jpg\" alt=\"The Dench Dozen cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/The-Dench-Dozen-cover.jpg 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/The-Dench-Dozen-cover.jpg?resize=170,170 170w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/03\/The-Dench-Dozen-cover.jpg?resize=150,150 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p><strong>Published by<\/strong> Hungry Eye<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price<\/strong> \u00a350, 159 pages, hardback<\/p>\n<p><strong>ISBN<\/strong> 978-0- 9926405-2-1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/latest\/photo-news\/video-peter-dench-on-the-dench-dozen-102999\">Click here<\/a> to watch Peter Dench&#8217;s interview with AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this volume, photographer Peter Dench sits down, and often drinks, with some of Britain\u2019s top photographers. 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