Phaidon STILL: The Art of Noticing

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Every day for over a decade, Mary Jo Hoffman stepped outside with her camera and a sense of quiet curiosity. STILL collects 275 images from that ongoing practice—simple compositions built from light, shadow, and the ephemera of found nature. A maple seed, a frost-lined branch, the curve of a feather: each photograph reflects her background in engineering as much as her instinct for noticing. Paired with short, personal essays, the book becomes a record of observation over time—unpolished, precise, and deeply human in its pacing. There’s no grand thesis here, just a commitment to looking closely, again and again.

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