Route 36: Flood Edtitions 2010 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981952038 ISBN 13: 9780981952031

Verlag: Flood Editions, 2010

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In this remarkable new book, Elizabeth Arnold focuses on what certain bodies undergo against forces that efface them. Physical law has it that "what pokes out gets hit." Limbs, noses, and jaws are blown off. There are mastectomies. Prosthetic reconstruction is "flesh displaced." Some of those who experience it learn that there is now between them and the ones they love a wall of cancelled desire. "One can adjust to this, they say, but not // from it." "On the outside," some lose "the ability to feel // glad to be alive." Losses such as these italicize how unlikely it was to begin with that any soul should ever have made its way into a body out of the oblivion that precedes birth. Death too is that oblivion. Its "fingers" open the face out of which "something // inner joins the surface" as soon as the eyes ask for help.--James McMichael

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This documentary series of photographs moves progressively westward, beginning at the Missouri River crossing, where oxbows form the platforms for the city of St. Joseph, and ending where the two lanes of Route 36 disappear into Interstate 70 at Byers, Colorado, within sight of the Rocky Mountains. These boundaries demark the specific geographical region of the Western prairie, characterized by low annual rainfall and diminishing vegetation. The area has a particular expansiveness and quality of light that paradoxically feels timeless while revealing its obsolescence and decay. In Route 36, Wylie beautifully captures this quality of light in approximately one hundred photographs, making use of a fine-grain film to record detailed textures within the vast spaces. En route, he draws out relations between the dry, flat landscape and stark, vertical structures. In Wylie’s images, buildings often present blank faces, abandoned without names or signage, former uses unspecified; they sometimes appear as depthless surfaces against the deep expanse of prairie. Moving through the collection, we recognize this tension as characteristic of the region and its moment in history. Wylie presents these photographs as a catalog, assembled into a collective portrait of place, such as Eugene Atget did with Paris, and Walker Evans did in the American South.

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• Verlag: Flood Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0981952038
• ISBN 13: 9780981952031
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 89