Images

by David Lynch

DAVID LYNCH - IMAGES /ANGLAIS

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Photography, Film

192 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1994

About the author

David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor. He received acclaim for his films, which are often distinguished by their surrealist, dreamlike qualities. In a career spanning more than fifty years, he was awarded numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 2006 and an Honorary Academy Award in 2019. Described as a "visionary", Lynch was considered one of the most important filmmakers of his era.
Lynch studied painting before he began making short films in the late 1960s. His first feature-length film was the independent surrealist film Eraserhead (1977), which saw success as a midnight movie. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the biographical drama The Elephant Man (1980), the neo-noir thriller Blue Velvet (1986), and the surrealist mystery Mulholland Drive (2001). His romantic crime drama Wild at Heart (1990) won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed the space opera adaptation Dune (1984), the surrealist neo-noir Lost Highway (1997), the biographical drama The Straight Story (1999), and the experimental film Inland Empire (2006).
Lynch and Mark Frost created the ABC series Twin Peaks (1990–91), for which he was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Lynch co-wrote and directed its film prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), and a third season in 2017. He also portrayed FBI agent Gordon Cole in Twin Peaks and John Ford in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans (2022), and guest-starred in shows such as The Cleveland Show (2010–13) and Louie (2012).
Lynch also worked as a musician, recording the albums BlueBOB (2001), Crazy Clown Time (2011), and The Big Dream (2013), as well as painting and photography. He wrote the books Images (1994), Catching the Big Fish (2006), and Room to Dream (2018). He directed several music videos, for artists such as X Japan, Moby, Interpol, Nine Inch Nails, and Donovan, and commercials for Dior, YSL, Gucci, and the NYC Department of Sanitation. A practitioner of Transcendental Meditation (TM), he founded the David Lynch Foundation to fund meditation lessons for students, veterans, and other "at-risk" populations. Lynch died on January 15, 2025, after being evacuated from his home due to the wildfires that started in Southern California earlier that month.

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thru the darkness of Future Past the magician longs to see one chants out between two worlds Fire - walk with me.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a wonderfully bizarre man

[Steven Godin · Rating 5 out of 5]

When you've got some weird mutated figure without a face and what looks like a prolapsed asshole coming out of the palm of a hand then you know we're in Lynch's world. Mixes eerie black and white photos with stills from some of his iconic films and a mixture of writings and paintings. I love pretty much everything that Lynch churns out.

[Drew Raley · Rating 3 out of 5]

In 1990, David Lynch was cutting-edge. In 1994, when this book was published, David Lynch was an Artist. Now, this is just a catalog of the limited breadth of interests David Lynch maintains between smoking cigarettes and not making movies. Maybe we should have seen it as early as 1994, but between his LA noir pique and his sludgy painting, Lynch had 4 and 3/4 interesting things to say, and not much else.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wouldn't really say I read this book, since it's a coffee table style book of art. It's the usual David Lynch type stuff...industrial scenes, smoke, fire, women, dental appliances. It's good stuff if you're into that kind of thing.

[Jeremy Patterson · Rating 3 out of 5]

"SPARK PLUGS - ask to see them"

[Tim Robishaw]

Book.