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Chargement... Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance (édition 2006)par Geoffrey Batchen
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Geoffrey Batchen, Forget Me Not: Photography And Remembrance, Princeton Architectural Press (2006), First paperback edition. I found Geoffrey Batchen’s Forget me not: photography & remembrance (Princeton Archtectural Press, 2004) particularly interesting while also reading through an autograph/commonplace book album relating to my family in the 1890s through to 1940. Batchen’s starting point is nicely summarised in his conclusion (page 94) when he states that ‘contrary to popular opinion, photography does not enhance memory - involuntary, physically embracing and immediate memory - but rather replaces it with images - images that are historical, coherent, informational. To induce the full sensorial experience of involuntary memory, a photograph must be transformed’ (page 94). Photographs are static - to generate living and emotive memories they need to be accompanied by other means and media, for instance, ‘addition of writing, paint, framing, embroidery, fabric string, hair, flowers, butterfly wings and other images’ (page 94). Batchen, page 47, goes on to say:‘Handwriting...personalises photography. Even when prosaic in content, handwritten inscriptions suggest the voice of the writer, adding sound to the senses of touch and sight already engaged’. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Since its invention, photography has always been inextricably tied up with remembrance: photographers recall family, beloved friends, special moments, trips and other events, speaking across time and place to create an emotional bond between subject and viewer. Forget Me Not focuses on this relationship between photography and memory, and explores the curious and centuries-old practice of strengthening the emotional appeal of photographs by embellishing them -- with text, paint, frames, embroidery, fabric, string, hair, flowers, bullets, cigar wrappers, butterfly wings, and more -- to create strange and often beautiful hybrid objects. This spellbinding book features color photographs of eighty such objects, extraordinary works of art -- part memento, part Joseph Cornell -- created by ordinary people from the mid-19th century to mid-20th century. In addition,Forget Me Not offers an alternative way to look at the history of photography, a history that effectively excludes most of the photographs -- candid views, family snapshots, and the like -- taken since the invention of the camera. Noted photography historian Geoffrey Batchen adopts a different tone in this original and engaging book -- a personal and speculative voice that speaks to the objects rather than about them while offering a visual treasure chest of both mysterious and beautiful images. Forget Me Not is published with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and accompanies an exhibition of the same name that opens at the Museum in March 2004. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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