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Herve Guibert Ghost Image (Paperback). 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. Further DetailsTitle: Ghost Image Condition: New Author: Herve Guibert Publisher: University of Chicago Press EAN: 9780226132341 Format: Paperback Translator: Robert Bononno Contributor: Robert Bononno (Translated by) ISBN: 9780226132341 Release Date: 03/26/2014 Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Genre: Arts & Photography Item Height: 20mm Item Length: 13mm Topic: Biography Description: Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays - meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems - and not a single image. Herve Guibert's brief, literary rumination on photography was written in response to Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida, but its deeply personal contents go far beyond that canonical text. Some essays talk of Guibert's parents and friends, some describe old family photographs and films, and spinning through them all are reflections on remembrance, narcissism, seduction, deception, death, and the phantom images that have been missed. 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.Rifling through vacation snapshots and the autographed images of long-forgotten film stars, Guibert muses, "I don't even recognize the faces, except occasionally that of an aunt or great-aunt, or the thin, fair face of my mother as a young girl." 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. Item Width: 1mm Item Weight: 198g Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith Release Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
