My Town: An Artist’s Life In London

"The coronavirus lockdown era generates a furious desire for escape, and there’s no place I go more in my imagination than London. As the home of Sherlock Holmes, Bertie Wooster, Hercule Poirot and other heroes of our imagination, it exists as a rare kind of double place – a beloved fictional mise en scène on top of a real, living city. When my wife and I eloped, we notified the world with a photo captured across the River Thames from the Palace of Westminster. Artist David Gentleman has spent his career depicting the real London through its decades of evolution, and his beautiful book was a mental boarding pass to the metropolis he has been capturing for decades."