Traces of Man. Herbert Spencer

Lund Humphries Publishers. 1967. First edition. Hard cover. 32pp. Rare

Black and White photographs by Spencer which he took while travelling in Europe (Netherlands, Sicily, Ireland, Crete, Switzerland, Spain).

Spencer published a variety of these images in Typographica and saw some as ‘expressive pattern’.

Images where messages can be discovered or interpreted into - this exceptional selection of Spencer’s photography is worth having a close look at!

’These photographs, taken over a period of several years and in many countries, have one characteristic in common: pattern. But it is pattern of a special kind for in taking them my aim has been to capture not formal pattern but expressive pattern. ‘ Herbert Spencer