The Picture Not Taken by Benjamin Swett

The Picture Not Taken by Benjamin Swett

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The Picture Not Taken by Benjamin Swett

An ecologically minded collection of essays in the vein of Rebecca Solnit and Susan Sontag, covering everything from the equipment of photography to the difficulties of perception itself.

In The Picture Not Taken, the photographer and writer Benjamin Swett considers the intersections between photography, memory, the natural world, and the course of life in essays on subjects that include family snapshots, images of racial violence, the shape of abiding love, and the experience of unforseen and irremediable loss. In these beautifully written, deeply affecting pages, Swett moves with a wonderful improvisatory freedom among his chosen themes. The Picture Not Taken is a book of transfixing pieces that possesses the intensity and integrity and heft of the wholly new.
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ISBN 13 9781681378633
ISBN 10 1681378639
Title The Picture Not Taken
Author Benjamin Swett
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published 2024-10-29
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.