Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
22.12.2022
Verlag
The University of Chicago PressSeitenzahl
162 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
1450 KB
Übersetzt von
Robert Bononno
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780226132488
" [A] memoir and love letter to the medium" containing essays on photography and artistic life from the French photographer and author ( Los Angeles Review of Books ).
Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays-meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems-and not a single image. Hervé Guibert's brief, literary rumination on photography was written in response to Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, but its deeply personal contents go far beyond that canonical text.
Both a memoir and an exploration of the artistic process, Ghost Image not only reveals Guibert's particular experience as a gay artist captivated by the transience and physicality of his media and his life, but also his thoughts on the more technical aspects of his vocation. In one essay, Guibert searches through a cardboard box of family portraits for clues-answers, or even questions-about the lives of his parents and more distant relatives. In other essays, he explains how he composes his photographs, and how-in writing-he seeks to escape and correct the inherent limits of his technique, to preserve those images lost to his technical failings as a photographer.
With strains of Jean Genet and recurring themes that speak to the work of contemporary artists across a range of media, Guibert's Ghost Image is a beautifully written, melancholic ode to existence and art forms both fleeting and powerful-a unique memoir at the nexus of family, memory, desire, and photography.
"Quick, candid, and exquisitely felt." ¿ Publishers Weekly
"A lyrical, elegiac celebration of the medium and its implications-provocative and highly original." ¿ Kirkus Reviews
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