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Slant / Aaron Schuman.
- Title
- Slant / Aaron Schuman.
- Author
- Schuman, Aaron,
- Publication
- [London] : Mack, [2019]
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | TR650 .S386 2019g | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- MACK (Publishing firm), publisher.
- Description
- 88 unnumbered pages : chiefly black-and-white illustrations; 27 cm
- Summary
- If you opened the local newspaper in the small New England town of Amherst, Massachusetts, as Aaron Schuman did one day, you might find a section entitled "Police Reports" - succinct and extraordinarily anticlimactic accounts of crimes, suspicious activities, events and non-events reported in the area during the previous week. In 'SLANT', Schuman interweaves a selection of these clippings published between 2014-2018, with quietly wry photographs he made within a thirty-mile radius of Amherst from 2016-18, in response to their unintentionally deadpan descriptions. What began as a genuinely affectionate, tongue-in-cheek take on the small towns where Schuman spent his childhood steadily came to reflect the disquieting rise of "fake news", "alternative facts", "post-truth" politics and paranoia in America following the 2016 election. Schuman's subtly offbeat combination of images and words, however, was always inclined to create a foreboding sense of unease. In 'SLANT', the relationship that has been constructed between photography and text takes its inspiration from a poetic scheme called "slant rhyme", notably espoused by the 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson, who also happened to live and write in Amherst. In such a rhyming scheme, there is a close but not exact correspondence of sounds, often using assonance or consonance; generally it is used in poetry to give variations and an inharmonious feeling. Appropriating this literary device, 'SLANT' serves as a wider reflection upon something strange, surreal, dissonant and increasingly sinister stirring beneath the surface of the contemporary American landscape, experience, and psyche.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Photobooks.
- Pictorial works.
- Note
- All police reports found in the Amherst Bulletin between 2014-2018. All photographs made between 2016-2018, in and near Amherst, Massachusetts.
- ISBN
- 9781912339389
- 1912339382
- LCCN
- 2019393362
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries