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The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings

Princeton Architectural Press By KayLynn Deveney
and Albert Hastings

5-3/10 x 7-1/2 in; 116 pp ; 75 color and 20 b/w images
Hardcover
Published in June, 2007
ISBN 1568987048
ISBN13 9781568987040

$19.95  

The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings -- When Albert Hastings was eighty-five years old, photographer KayLynn Deveney moved near his small flat in Wales. KayLynn took notice of the small rituals and routines—gardening, laundry, grocery shopping—that made up Bert's life. A friendship slowly developed as KayLynn began photographing parts of Bert's day. The two developed a simple yet effective method of storytelling—with KayLynn's images and Albert's handwritten text—and the project evolved into The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings a poignant and profound chronicle of aging, living alone, and the small things that make up our daily lives. Containing seventy-eight photographs along with poems written by Bert, his clock drawings, and personal family photographs, The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings gives the reader a glimpse into one man's life. We can only imagine what stories are left untold.

Albert Hastings passed away in February, 2007. He was 91 years old.

KayLynn Deveney is pursuing a PhD in photographic studies.