This book brings together works from Hunter's career, including his latest series 'Headlines', and the masterpieces from which he has taken inspiration. As well as comparing and contrasting Hunter's interpretations of the Old Masters, the essays also reveal how important story-telling is to the work of this most distinctive artist.

TOM HUNTER'S reputation has been established with a series of puzzling and provocative photographic reworkings of paintings from the past. His work, however,is emphatically contemporary and takes as its subject the lives of the ordinary residents of Hackney, as reported in local newspapers.These often startling stories are told in carefully staged photographs that borrow,or perhaps steal their compositions from artists as diverse as Vermeer and Velazquez,or Gauguin and Manet. By referencing these timeless works of art, Hunter invests the stories he tells with a seriousness andgrandeur that connects them to the narratives of the past.

Director's Foreword

MAKING AN ART OUT OF TELLING STORIES

Tracy Chevalier

HEADLINES

LIVING IN HELL AND OTHER STORIES

Colin Wiggins

List of Works

Biography

Photographic Note

Acknowledgements

Picture Credits