About the book: For the last twenty years, Damien Hirst has been photographing all the pharmacies of London, obsessed by their minimalist aesthetic and cool colours. Hirst has been making art about the pharmacy since 1988's ‘Medicine Cabinets’, endowing modern medicine with a sense of religiosity, drawing as he does on the unshakeable faith in the power of the drug to position these buildings as temples. This project is the furthest he has ever taken this thesis, combining decades of work into this multi-volume collection, each a work of art in itself as it captures every pharmacy in London and many of their pharmacists in varying artistic styles.

About the author: Damien Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He was born on June 7, 1965 in Bristol, England. Hirst is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is considered an enfant terrible of the 1990s art world, and his deliberately provocative art addresses vanitas and beauty, death and rebirth, and medicine, technology, and mortality.