Photographs: Page 3

by Ross Bleckner

Ross Bleckner's deeply personal camera work travels over the intimate contours of a lover's body and the pages of his daily newspaper. The enigmatic and absurd landslide of images that inundate our daily lives falls across the pages of this book and is mounted like so many strange butterflies on every page. Perhaps the images are a cumulative autobiography -- an effort by the artist to suggest that all we reach out to and all we touch are the mirror that becomes us.

124 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1998

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting artist's book created by the good folks at Twin Palms Press -- as predicted, beautifully printed and assembled, but ultimately attempts to make a grander statement with material that obviously serves as a reference, rather than raw.

With Bleckner (among my most admired painters and artists) I'm a completist: I feel the urge to have every text regarding his work on my shelf. This collection of his photographs, although compelling and beautiful to gawk at, is one that ultimately is worth missing.