Miller's Nowhere in Particular

by Jonathan Miller

For the past three decades, highly acclaimed theater and opera director Dr Jonathan Miller has pursued the unlikely hobby of photographing unusual and bizarre objects. In this acute, perceptive gaze, ordinary details of the everyday world, often ignored or overlooked, somehow take on a life of their own. Here, for the first time, these strange and enigmatic pictures are presented in a unique and highly personal volume, together with Jonathan's notebook jottings, which illuminate his observations on life and art.

Genres: Art

Hardcover

First published August 20, 2001

About the author

Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE was a British theatre and opera director, author, television presenter, humorist and sculptor. Trained as a physician in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the 1960s with his role in the comedy review Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. Despite having seen few operas and not knowing how to read music, he began stage-directing them in the 1970s and became one of the world's leading opera directors with several classic productions to his credit. His best-known production is probably his 1982 "Mafia"-styled Rigoletto set in 1950s Little Italy, Manhattan. He was also a well-known television personality and familiar public intellectual in the UK and US.

Reviews

[Becky Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant. Miller's eye for composition is excellent, and the notes throughout are fascinating almost without fail. The book as a whole acts to jog the memory of so many little details that most of us have forgotten to notice.