an end and a beginning (*Rare book)
an end and a beginning (*Rare book)
an end and a beginning
Alyssa Minahan
“By creating images that will ultimately disappear or deteriorate into something else, I seek to challenge established notions of process, permanence and completion. What does it mean to make a photograph that is purposely fugitive?” _Alyssa Minahan
Alyssa Minahan’s photographic objects included in this book – chemigrams, x-rays, gelatin silver prints, photograms, lumens and polaroids – oscillate between light and darkness, representational and abstract, and ephemeral and permanent. Links between disparate photographs are evidenced by stains and traces of chemistry, repeated imagery, and formal elements such as color and shape. Minahan contemplates on the questions: ‘How can the photographic medium describe loss?’ and ‘Can the process by which the work is created become the work itself?’ In response, her book presents a lyrical rendering of photography’s singular ability to visually depict essential truths about our lived experiences, evidenced by the creation of unique, non-reproducible objects imbued with marks and confirmation of their own existence.
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Limited Edition, 100 copies
2022
20.5 × 26.8 cm
66 pages
Soft cover / PUR Perfect binding with French folding / Transparent slipcase
ISBN 978-89-97605-77-4
* Each book includes one unique Lumen print signed and dated by the artist.
* The bookmaking process has been carried out with exquisite craftsmanship by Datz Books.
