Searching for Sebald: Photography After W. G. Sebald
Los Angeles: The Institute of Cultural Inquiry, 2007.
Trade Edition. Paperback.
W.G. Sebald's books are sui generis hybrids of fiction, travelogue, autobiography and historical expose, in which a narrator (both Sebald and not Sebald) comments on the quick blossoming of natural wonders and the long deaths that come of human atrocities. All his narratives are punctuated with images--murky photographs, architectural plans, engravings, paintings, newspaper clippings--inserted into the prose without captions and often without obvious connection to the words that surround them.
Searching for Sebald adopts a unique perspective on Sebald’s use of images, including a nuanced discussion of shifting layouts in different editions of the books. Theoretical essays approach Sebald through the multiple filters of art history, film and photographic studies, cultural theory, and psychoanalysis. This volume also includes the first English translation of a landmark interview with Sebald in which he discusses his use of images.
With essays by Richard Crownshaw, Deborah Cullen, Adrian Daub, Lisa Diedrich, Florence Feiereisen and Danial Pope, Mattias Frey, Christopher Gregory-Guider, Avi Kempinski, Christina Kraenzle, Christ-Maria Lerm Hayes, Anneleen Masschelein, Bettina Mosbach, Lisa Patt, John Sears, Carsten Strathausen, Markus Zisselsberger, and a 1997 interview with Sebald, by Christian Scholz.
With artwork by Shimon Attie, Thomas Becker, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Dorothy Cross, Tacita Dean, Christel Dillbohner, Anne Flannery, Axel Forrest, Suvan Geer, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham, Pablo Helguera, Anselm Kiefer, Antoinette La Farge, Daniel Lash, Matthew Marco, Jeremy Millar, Helen Mirra, Adam Pendleton, Man Ray, Gerhard Richter, Chris Rochelle, Christian Scholz, Skuta, Tris Vonna-Michell, Aby Warburg, Tim Wright and the ICI Research Team, among others.
Item #902438ISBN: 9781889917115
7-3/4 x 10", stiff pictorial printed wrappers with folding flaps, pictorial endpapers, 632pp, biographical notes, credits, bibliography, notes on style, indices, illustrated.
Spine cracked, clean of owner’s marks, tight, square, near fine in silver paper-covered slip-case with 6-page folding color plate of an “Itinerary for a Walking Tour Through East Anglia” by Christel Dillbohner laid in.
Price: $75.00