PICTURE THIS
POOLS
edited by Lou Stoppard (Rizzoli £50)
POOLS edited by Lou Stoppard (Rizzoli £50)
The swimming pool evokes holiday, exercise, tranquillity and perhaps even fantasy in the current climate. In this gorgeous book, Lou Stoppard poetically examines the impact the pool has had on the creative imagination.
The first photographic British Vogue cover, for example, showed not a gorgeous dress but a bathing scene.
Blue, sparkling, still, the pool is the ultimate blank canvas for artists and photographers. The book’s cover is even waterproof — how ingenious! You’ll wish you could physically dive into its cerulean pages.