TAKE-AWAY – CHUCK ROUTHIER
Chuck Routhier’s artist’s book, Take-away, is derived from the National Enquirer, Daily News, New York Post and the New York Times Magazine.
All text has been removed. The divider rules, outline boxes and other elements have been retained and all the black boxes represent photographs.
A deeply moving collection of essays by Bruce Bromley, author of Making Figures: Reimagining Body, Sound, and Image in a World That Is Not for Us (Dalkey Archive Press, 2014) and The Life in the Sky Comes Down: Essays, Stories, Essay/Stories (Backlash Press, 2017). With photographs by Tom Lecky.
Concord traces several days in New Hampshire's capital, an unplanned visit that worked its way outward from hotel room balcony to state buildings, to the inner and outer edges of this New England city.
Volumes 1-3 now published. A series reflecting Dine’s ongoing obsession with the “trash stratum,” as well as his daily observations of the mundane and beautiful
Exploring the relationship between memory and the corporeal body, Coppola’s work traverses psychological and physical dimensions, and Notes on Stills for a Film Not Made engages with the viewer through paired images – sometimes obscured, almost always lacking predetermined reference – and forges experiential bonds that evolve slowly over repeated readings.
In his preface, filmmaker Peter Ward describes acquiring the archive of Bernard Taylor, an enigmatic former resident of his suburban New York village. Ward selected and edited this group of Taylor’s papers: intimate worksheets that combine a series of photographs, maps, and postcards with illusive short texts that were clearly created for Taylor’s private study. Ward’s editorial interjections – all relating to local history – punctuate the book, and blur distinctions between fiction, biography, and reportage.
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