{"id":3549,"date":"2019-10-10T11:50:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T15:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2019-10-10T11:50:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T15:50:59","slug":"pullman-purcell-grandville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3549","title":{"rendered":"Pullman, Purcell, Grandville"},"content":{"rendered":"

As is often the case, Chance is favoring the mind as it Prepares for a week-long project-centered workshop on InDesign (which I’ve used to construct most of my Blurb books, though clumsily). The first episode, a couple of days ago, was this fortuitous quotation that jumped off the page\/screen of Philip Pullman’s just-published The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

You won’t understand anything about the imagination until you realize that it’s not about making things up, it’s about perception.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n(Much of my attention in recent years has been pinioned by the polyvalence of Imagination in my photographic life).<\/p>\n

\nAnd then I stopped in at Hello Hello Books, as I frequently do, to eyeball the Photography shelf for anything new, and found Rosamond Purcell’s Bookworm<\/b><\/a>, a beautifully designed book of her collages, constructions, and photographs of books “inevitably invaded by forces of nature and decay.” The whole issue of design<\/i> is one I hope to attend to in the InDesign workshop, and Purcell’s book is a magnificent example.<\/p>\n

\nAnd yesterday’s email brought me a pointer from my co-conspirator Daniel to an essay on Grandville<\/a>, whose work I’ve loved since discovering it long ago via a Dover book. The author (Patricia Mainardi) goes into some detail on a late and little-known book that Grandville inspired and illustrated, but which was never translated or republished after its first edition in 1844: Un autre monde<\/b><\/a>. The subtitle seems absolutely on the money as a characterization of what I hope for my photographic work:<\/p>\n

Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Vacations, Caprices, Cosmogonies, Reveries, Whimsies, Phantasmagorias, Apotheoses, Zoomorphoses, Lithomorphoses, Metamorphoses, Metempsychoses, and Other Things<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This illustration from the book seems an ideal accompaniment to what I wrote two years ago in Reflection on my own Body of Work<\/a> at the end of the Andy Ilachinski workshop:
\n


\n<\/p>\n

\nThe I<\/b> is
\nplayful, wry,
\nin search of
\nparadoxes, epiphanies, essences,
\ncuriosities, ambiguities, amusements,
\nthe occluded, the improvisatory,
\nstories.
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