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    612-822-4611

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The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography

The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography

Swett, Benjamin

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Letters & EssaysIndividual ArtistsPhotographers

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1681378639
ISBN13: 9781681378633
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Oct 29 2024
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
An ecologically minded collection of essays in the vein of Rebecca Solnit and Susan Sontag, covering everything from the equipment of photography to the difficulties of perception itself.

In The Picture Not Taken, the photographer and writer Benjamin Swett considers the intersections between photography, memory, the natural world, and the course of life in essays on subjects that include family snapshots, images of racial violence, the shape of abiding love, and the experience of unforseen and irremediable loss. In these beautifully written, deeply affecting pages, Swett moves with a wonderful improvisatory freedom among his chosen themes. The Picture Not Taken is a book of transfixing pieces that possesses the intensity and integrity and heft of the wholly new.

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