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Spells : a novel within photographs

Rock, Peter, 1967- author, Borazanian, Sophia, photographer, Lafleur-Vetter, Sara, photographer, McCollough, Peter Earl, photographer, Mallett, Shaena, photographer, Plumb, Colleen, 1970- photographer

Overview

Twenty years ago, while working as a security guard in an art museum, Peter Rock staved off the job's inherent boredom and loneliness by trying to make up a story for each photograph, painting and object in the museum. A few years ago, reminded of the pleasures and play that he felt in danger of forgetting, he began to envision a similar project. As he explains, \"First, I found photographers whose work I was drawn to, and contacted them with a very hypothetical and tentative description of what I was doing. Somewhat arbitrarily, I decided that five photographers would be a good number; I was gratified that the first five I contacted were excited to join me. Next, I let these photographers know why I was drawn to their work, noted some images I really admired, and shared some of my previous writing with them. I asked them to send me 20-30 images; of these, I chose five at a time, and proceeded incrementally, generating the specific stories as I went. The images are not merely illustrations for a pre-existent story, then, but the conditions and possibilities and limitations of how they proceeded. The images came first. One way to think of it is that the stories herein, and the larger story they become, were already embedded in the photographs.

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Subject: Short stories, American. / Narrative art. / Bildungsromans. / Fantasy fiction.
• ISBN: 9781619029002, 1619029006

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3568.O327 S64 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE