Publish Date |
October 29, 2024 |
Category |
Art / Individual Artists / Essays Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers |
Price |
$24.95 |
ISBN: 9781681378633
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: October 29, 2024
"A photographer known for his evocative portraits of urban trees writes both mystically and matter-of-factly about the art form....A provocative book to shelve alongside Sontag, Barthes, Cartier-Bresson, and other philosophers of the image." — Kirkus Reviews
“This marvellous meditation on memory and seeing asks us, with a rare power, to take nothing for granted.” —Amit Chaudhuri
"The title of this essay collection …hints that it won’t be about photography in the narrow sense, and indeed, it isn’t. Rather, it’s an extended meditation on the entire field of memory, emotion, personal connections, and the larger world as these forces find expression in individual images." —Michael Dashkin, Library Journal
“The Picture Not Taken is a book for artists working in any art genre who dare to peer at their motivations.” - Ron Slate, On the Seawall
"In this astute, stealthily devastating book, writer and photographer Benjamin Swett beautifully conveys not only what he sees through the iris of the camera lens, but the complex, infinite imperatives of the biosphere outside the frame. A subtle re-imagining of the possibilities of the American essay, The Picture Not Taken is a haunting meditation on the visible world and the cast shadow of tragedy." —Cynthia Zarin