The Picture Not Taken The Picture Not Taken

The Picture Not Taken

On Life and Photography

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    • Expected Oct 29, 2024
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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
AVAILABLE
2024
October 29
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
New York Review Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC