Dive Dark Dream Slow

Dive Dark Dream Slow

Photographer and bookseller Melissa Catanese has been editing the vast photography collection of Peter J. Cohen, a celebrated trove of more than 20,000 vernacular and found anonymous photographs from the early to mid-twentieth century. Gathered from flea markets, dealers and Ebay, these prints have been acquired, exhibited and included in a range of major museum publications. In organizing the archive into a series of thematic catalogues, she has pursued an alternate reading of the collection, drifting away from simple typology into something more personal, intuitive and openly poetic. Her magical new artistâ€™s book, Dive Dark Dream Slow, is rooted in the mystery and delight of the â€œfoundâ€ image and the â€œsnapshotâ€ aesthetic, but pushes beyond the nostalgic surface of these pictures and reimagines them as luminous transmissions of anxious sensuality. Through a series of abandoned visual clues, from the sepia-infused shadow of a little girl running along a beach to silhouettes of a group of distant figures pausing upon a steep and snowy hill, a dreamlike journey is evoked. Like an album of pop songs about a girl (or a civilization) hovering on the verge of transformation, the book cycles through overlapping themes and counter-themes--moon and ocean; violence and tenderness; innocence and experience; masks and nakedness--that sparkle with deep psychic longing and apocalyptic comedy.
Country USA
Brand Ice Plant
Manufacturer The Ice Plant
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations, colour illu
ReleaseDate 2012-11-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780982365373

Country	USA
Brand	Ice Plant
Manufacturer	The Ice Plant
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations, colour illu
ReleaseDate	2012-11-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780982365373

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