Features sixty-three short essays. Both a memoir and an exploration of the artistic process, this book not only reveals the author'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.
Herve Guibert (1955-1991) may be France's best known author of AIDS narratives. This very personal rumination on photography in partly a response to Barthes s "Camera Lucida," the most widely taught literary/theoretical text on photography. Guibert combines accounts of his artistic process with memoir, revealing his particular experience and vision of the world. In 63 short meditations and stories, he tries to express what he would have caught in photographs he tried to take but missed through some technical mistake.Guibert explains how he sets up compositions for photographs.He searches through a box of old family snapshots for insights into his relationship with his parents and other relatives.He describes photography as an act of possession, frustration, and exploration. "
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Herve Guibert (1955-1991) may be France's best known author of AIDS narratives. This very personal rumination on photography in partly a response to Barthes s "Camera Lucida," the most widely taught literary/theoretical text on photography. Guibert combines accounts of his artistic process with memoir, revealing his particular experience and vision of the world. In 63 short meditations and stories, he tries to express what he would have caught in photographs he tried to take but missed through some technical mistake.Guibert explains how he sets up compositions for photographs.He searches through a box of old family snapshots for insights into his relationship with his parents and other relatives.He describes photography as an act of possession, frustration, and exploration. "
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