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I just realized - it is the image described at the end of the prologue when you are wrestling with the death of your father and what taking images means, and not wanting to make them art. B Earnest: b I think images, our memories, but also our memories of images, are all we have to understand what happened. Jarrett Earnest I Valid Until Sunset i (MATTE Editions, 2023) I Mountain rises, filling the view from the back porch. i I Last season's brush pile is waiting to be burned, overgrown i I with bull thistle. My book was going to be about what I could see and what I couldn't make out and then as the book went on, I started realizing that it was more and more about the things that are I not i in the image or images that emotionally come up for me in relationship to this image. Someone else might have sought for images in order to write about them, but then that wouldn't be your book because ultimately your book is driven by the image selection. [Extracted from the article] |
