JOHN R. TAYLOR: Ideal Home: a detached look at modern livingA special limited edition is also available. Ideal Home was first published over thirty years ago in 1989. The book quickly began to influence photographers and students as to what was a suitable subject for an image, opening up the possibilities of exploring the ordinary, everyday objects of life in a new way. Once a cult book, it is now considered a modern classic. Ideal Home is an almost forensic photographic record of his sisters north London

he moved to Kiev

ten NPPA Best of Photojournalism awards and ten PDN Photo Annual awards

'the book is testament to deep brotherly love

Laura Gilpin

New places are created to enable people to experience a more perfect version of reality – places which are easy to understand and appear safe for everyone

on April 12th 1961

They reveal an immense and unsuspected wealth of colour hidden behind Ireland’s green facade – yellow islands of gorse

he has also chosen to photograph events and places that have a more immediate

Hardback with dust jacket

Magnum photographer

He worked in the building trade until his early twenties before studying photography

This has often been an implicit theme of his work