Beyond 2000
By the end of the 'noughties', however, rumours began to emerge of a new, revised edition of Each a Glimpse with enhanced, digitally scanned images taken from the original negatives. The old rifts having evidently healed, Ian Allan would once again be the publisher but at the time of writing (March 2011) nothing concrete had emerged and there were suggestions that no formal contract had yet been signed. Another distinct possibility was an album of Gifford's colour work, based around a stunning set of around 100 images that had been exhibited at Kidderminster Railway Museum in 2009 under the title 'In the Wink of an Eye'. There was even mention of the River Thames book once again but, as ever with this gifted and charismatic photographer, only Gifford himself can know what the ultimate course of events will be.
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