The Picture Not Taken

Description

The Picture Not Taken
by Benjamin Swett

ISBN: 9781681378633
Softcover, new

Brief Description:
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.