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27 Contexts: an anecdotal history in photography
From the cover flap: "Illustrated with a broad spectrum of images from family snapshots to Hubble space imagery. from my own photographs to the work of artists such as Josef Koudelka, Larry Sultan, Maya Deren, Odilon Redon, Nan Goldin, David Wojnarowicz, and Chris Marker, 27 Contexts is a series of linked essays that examine how photographs are inextricably bound in our personal and collective histories."
Artist Mark Durant's autobiographical contextualizing of photography follows his own education from viewer of photographs to maker of them. He says of the practice itself, "The act of photographing does not interrupt time; it simply absorbs a fraction of it." What becomes affecting in this suite of narratives is how much the surface of a photograph of whatever authorship becomes the surface for depths of reflection.
Artist Mark Durant's autobiographical contextualizing of photography follows his own education from viewer of photographs to maker of them. He says of the practice itself, "The act of photographing does not interrupt time; it simply absorbs a fraction of it." What becomes affecting in this suite of narratives is how much the surface of a photograph of whatever authorship becomes the surface for depths of reflection.
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286 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2016
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