Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing, and Memory (Writers and Artists on Photography)

by Wright Morris

Book Overview

Discusses the relationship between text and photograph and examines the work of Eugene Atget, Solomon D. Butcher, NASA, Susan Sontag and Henry James. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893813826
• ISBN13: 9780893813826
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Aperture
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Roaming the World of Image and Word

What a joy it is to be in the presence of a clear thinker, and to roam the world of image and word with him! I searched out his perspecitives on time, emotion, and memory and went away refreshed. In his opening essay, "In Our Image," Wright Morris says, "The visible captured. Time arrested. Through a slit in time's veil we see what has vanished. An unearthly, mind-boggling sensation: commonplace yet fabulous. The photograph is paramount. th photographer subordinate." There is a fine essay on "Of Memory, Emotion, and Imagination." In "Photography in My Life," I enjoyed reading his journey of exploration from photographer only to pioneering text and photos to becoming primarily a novelist in later years--with his photographic eye trained upon his novelistic descriptions. This book of essays teamed with photos (I'm so glad they are here, regardless of production values) is rich and full. --Janet Grace Riehl, author Sightlines: A Poet's Diary