Research Catalog

The moth

Title

The moth / Jem Southam.

Author

Southam, Jem, 1950-

Publication

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Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	TR660.5 .S643 2018	Off-site

Description

72 unnumbered pages : chiefly colour illustrations; 25 x 31 cm

Summary

"The Moth derives from one black-and-white picture that Jem Southam made in about 1983: a solitary man standing on Gwithian beach in St Ives, Cornwall. From this singular, meditative moment, the book of otherwise unpeopled, colour photographs unravels like a succession of memories, drifting back and forth through time. Over the course of 30 years, Southam intermittently returned to the west of Cornwall to explore a place steeped in marine and mining history, and in the mythology of Celtic saints who exiled to Cornish shores. His poetic sequence of images, inspired by the alliterative verse of the old English poems The Wanderer and The Seafarer, moves from vistas of meadows to water streams, forgotten homes and farm dogs awaiting their food. Now and then, Southam's fluctuating current of pictures is punctuated by a sublime moment in the rural landscape, only to be eclipsed by the hazy memory of The Moth."--Publisher's website, accessed 14/12/2018.
"The photographs in this book were made over the past thirty years in the mining districts of the Red River valley and the north of Penwith in Cornwall"--Colophon.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

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ISBN

LCCN

2018439386

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library