Street Photography
A characteristic of Bond's style is his pastiche and appropriation of familiar types of photograph, for example, writing in Frieze, Ben Seymour said, "Bond carries on producing images of a homogenised, outside-less culture in a perpetual present of consumption which may be just ahead of, or self-consciously behind - but always deliberately in between - the conventions of advertising, fashion, surveillance or family photographs." Bond has also considered his work in relation to the dérive - literally: "drifting" - theorised by Guy Debord and the city walks of the flâneur or psychogeographer.
Characterizing his conception of street photography, in a 1998 interview, Bond said: " is parallel to the psychoanalytic session, in that anything can be mentioned." Bond began his street photography in the late-1990s and continued for approximately ten years concluding with his Interiors in 2005. Monograph books of Bond's street photography include two published in Germany - Point and Shoot (Ostfildern: Cantz) and La vie quotidienne (Essen: 20/21).
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