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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Odette Elix England: Isn't X Beautiful!

Odette Elix England: Isn't X Beautiful!

England, Odette

Paperback

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Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN13: 9798985733068
Publisher: Ice Plant
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.30 Depth: 6.30
Language: English

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.

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