Research Catalog

Title

Notes on Glaze : 18 Photographic Investigations / Wayne Koestenbaum.

Author

Koestenbaum, Wayne

Publication

Brooklyn, NY : Cabinet, [2016].

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Details

Description

104 pages : illustrations (some color); 21 cm

Summary

In the spring of 2010, the Brooklyn-based quarterly magazine Cabinet invited poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum to begin writing a regular column. Entitled "Legend," the column had a highly unusual premise. Every three months, the editors of the magazine would ask Koestenbaum to write one or more extended captions for a single photograph with which they had provided him; drawn from obscure vernacular, commercial and scientific sources, all of the images were unfamiliar to the author. After 18 installments, Koestenbaum concluded his column in the winter of 2015. Notes on Glaze, featuring an introductory essay by the author, collects all the "Legend" columns, as well as their accompanying photographs. Refusing the distancing language of critical disinterest, Koestenbaum’s columns always locate the author in intimate proximity to the subjects portrayed in the photographs and to the impossibly variegated cast of characters―ranging from Debbie Reynolds to Duccio, the Dalai Lama to Barbra Streisand; from Hegel to Pee-wee Herman, and Emily Dickinson to Cicciolina―that pass through these texts.

Subject

• Photograph captions
• Magazine illustration
• Magazine illustration
• Photograph captions

Genre/Form

Essays

Note

• Essays.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781932698589
• 1932698582

OCLC

• 933719941
• SCSB-10184972

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library