Author: Batchen, Geoffrey
Title: Forget Me Not: Photography & Remembrance
Description: New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2004. Hardcover. Black cloth/boards; gilt lettering. White/color-illus. dj with black lettering. Mylar cover. 128 pp. with mostly color images throughout. Forget Me Not focused on the relationship between photography and memory. It explores the curious and centuries-old practice of strengthening the emotional appeal of photographs by embellishing them with text, paint, frames, embroidery, fabric, string, hair, owers, bullets, cigar wrappers, butter y wings, and more to create strange and often beautiful hybrid objects. Tthis spellbinding book features color photographs of eighty such objects, extraordinary works of art, part memento, part obsessive assemblage, created by ordinary people from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. VG/VG .

Keywords: Photography; Photography and Memory; Exhibition Catalogue ; Photography and Remembrance ; ; Museum Exhibitions - Photography


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