Cover: the Third Heaven
The book dummy is complete, and now, onward to look for a publisher. Images are on a slide show, but please contact me if anyone out there is interested in publishing the book!
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relief i (where are you now, solzhenitsyn?)Near Irkutsk, Siberia. 1995. Platinum-palladium print, 8 x 10 in.
This image and one other was made thinking about Solzhenitsyn while traveling in Siberia during 1995. Wandering through the plush but compact grounds of a dacha, I kept wondering about the great writer, who transformed so many of my generation with his One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and other books. Cancer Ward shook me as a teenager. He had recently returned to Russia (1994). I kept thinking, for some reason, about the first moment he stepped back on Russian soil. Relief. Perhaps.
Falling Man.
Taken by Richard Drew at 9:41:15 a.m., on September 11, 2001
Three friends have now recommended Jonathan Safran Foer‘s novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Jack, Amy, Bjorn, your joint pointer carries a lot of weight and it is the next book I read. Palimpsest has some interesting discussion about the book.
While feeling my way through the information cloud around Foer and this book, I came across another fascinating book: Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth. Anyone else read it?
Nazraeli Press has just published a debut book by Kazumi Takahashi (don’t think this is the same person as the filmmaker), “High Tide Wane Moon“. Richly printed, exquisitely sequenced, and a quiet ode to the moon and the sea, this is among the most pensive books I’ve seen. It is available through PhotoEye Books.