CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/15/2025

See the world anew with 'Just Looking'

Certain people just know. They know! And we love to see what they see when they are just looking. Drawn from the Instagram feeds of interesting observers including Mimi Thomson, Eileen Myles, Nick Hornby and David Byrne, pictured here, the new book Just Looking: Snapshots, Close-ups and Portraits of the Everyday invites readers to pause and contemplate the extraordinary within the everyday. “This book will try to make you look at the world anew. To actually really see it,” Jarvis Cocker writes in the Introduction. “The photographs in this collection are simple, unaffected representations of the way certain people alive at this point in history perceive the world around us. There are no right or wrong ways to see the world: there’s just your own way. And once you combine many different people’s views of this one world that we all inhabit, you might just start to get an inkling of the brilliant complexity of life on Earth. The beauty of it. The majesty of it. And how very funny it can be.” Also including work by Roz Chast, Moyra Davey, Peter Doig, Matthew Higgs, Shirin Neshat, Nicole Eisenman, Keith McNally, Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread, among many others.