Odette Elix England: Isn't X Beautiful!, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Odette Elix England: Isn't X Beautiful!
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- Fotos:
- Odette England
- Verlag:
- Ice Plant, 02/2026
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9798985733068
- Artikelnummer:
- 12578189
- Umfang:
- 208 Seiten
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 10.2.2026
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
From Xanax to Xanadu to Kodak Double X, Odette England's photographic memoir-cum-meditation is a reckoning with childhood, memory and the meaning of images
Writer and artist Odette Elix England (born 1975) first crossed paths with photography--and, crucially, the letter X--as a child on her family's 200-acre dairy farm in Southern Australia, watching her sharecropping father make SX-70 Polaroids of cattle in the springtime. In Isn't X Beautiful! , an autobiographical reckoning with family memory, the fate of that plot of land and the history of photography are tangled and bound at every turn with the ubiquitous letter X: shadowy character, placeholder for nothing and everything, age-old stand-in for the indefinable. Teeming with free-associative factoids, humor and philosophical tangents, and written with the obsessive idiosyncrasy of Tim Carpenter's To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die, England's ambling 10-chapter tale is an extended meditation on the blind spots of personal narrative and the functions (and limitations) of photography in our personal and creative lives.