Research Catalog

Title

Lago / Ron Jude.

Author

Jude, Ron, 1965-

Publication

• [London] : MACK, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

MACK (Publishing firm), publisher.

Description

1 volume (unnumbered) : chiefly color illustrations; 29 x 25 cm

Summary

In 'Lago', Ron Jude returns to the California desert of his early childhood as if a detective in search of clues to his own identity. In a book of 54 photographs made between 2011 and 2014, he attempts to reconcile the vagaries of memory (and the uncertainty of looking) with our need to make narrative sense of things. Using a desolate desert lake as a theatrical backdrop, Jude meanders through the arid landscape of his youth, making note of everything from venomous spiders to discarded pornography. If one considers these traces to be a coded language of some sort, Jude's act of photographing and piecing them together becomes a form of cryptography like a poetic archeology that, rather than attempting to arrive at something conclusive, looks for patterns and rhythms that create congruity out of the stuttering utterances of the visible world. According to Jude, these harmonies, when we're lucky enough to find them, are probably the closest we can get to discovering actual meaning and grasping the potency of place.

Subjects

• Deserts > California > Pictorial works
• Jude, Ron, 1965-
• 1900 - 2099
• Photography, Artistic > 21st century

Note

• Place of publication taken from publisher's web site.

Call Number

MFW 16-4274

ISBN

• 1910164348
• 9781910164341
• 9781910164327
• 1910164321

LCCN

2015462913

OCLC

921185278

Author

Jude, Ron, 1965- photographer.

Title

Lago / Ron Jude.

Publisher

[London] : MACK, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1900 - 2099

Added Author

MACK (Publishing firm), publisher.

Research Call Number

MFW 16-4274