Odette Elix England: Isn't X Beautiful! - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798985733068

Verlag: The Ice Plant, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

From Xanax to Xanadu to Kodak Double X, Odette England's photographic memoir-cum-meditation is a reckoning with childhood, memory and the meaning of images

Writer and artist Odette Elix England (born 1975) first crossed paths with photography―and, crucially, the letter X―as a child on her family's 200-acre dairy farm in Southern Australia, watching her sharecropping father make SX-70 Polaroids of cattle in the springtime. In Isn't X Beautiful!, an autobiographical reckoning with family memory, the fate of that plot of land and the history of photography are tangled and bound at every turn with the ubiquitous letter X: shadowy character, placeholder for nothing and everything, age-old stand-in for the indefinable. Teeming with free-associative factoids, humor and philosophical tangents, and written with the obsessive idiosyncrasy of Tim Carpenter's To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die, England's ambling 10-chapter tale is an extended meditation on the blind spots of personal narrative and the functions (and limitations) of photography in our personal and creative lives.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The Ice Plant
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798985733068
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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