Vince Leo: Remembered as a Blessing
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Vince Leo: Remembered as a Blessing by Vince Leo
A beautifully somber photographic meditation on an ancient Jewish ritual The Jewish tradition of leaving a stone or pebble at the gravesite of a loved one is an ancient custom of remembering the departed by means of a humble natural object. Minneapolis-based photographer Vince Leo (born 1949) began taking photographs of these “visitation stones” after several people close to him died in quick succession, and he found himself enacting the ritual of grief over and over. Placing a stone is a simple but powerful gesture that connects the living to the dead. Remembered as a Blessing contains 30 of Leo’s black-and-white photographs, which honor these stones as the complex objects they are: simultaneously hard, durable pieces of matter and embodiments of ineffable spiritual relationships, often among many generations. Each of Leo’s photographs fuses light, focus, viewpoint, reflection and magnification into a moment in which the ordinary and the symbolic coexist. Daniel Mendelsohn, acclaimed author of The Lost, contributes an essay.
Renders remembrance and grief* The New York Times Book Review *
An aesthetically robust and spiritually poignant reflection on Jewish visitation stones. * Kirkus Reviews *
An aesthetically robust and spiritually poignant reflection on Jewish visitation stones. * Kirkus Reviews *
Mendelsohn, Daniel: - The American writer and literary critic Daniel Mendelsohn has won numerous awards including the National Book Critics Circle in 2006, the French 2007 prix Mü¾Ž–”¼dicis for foreign literature and the French Book of the Year prize (given by Lire magazine) for his book 'The Lost'. His latest works are 'An Odyssey: a Father, a Son and an Epic' (2017) and 'Three Rings' (2020). He is professor of classical literature at Bard College, and a contributor to the New York Review of Books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781735762982 |
| ISBN 10 | 1735762989 |
| Title | Vince Leo: Remembered as a Blessing |
| Author | Vince Leo |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | MW Editions |
| Year published | 2023-05-18 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
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