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POETRY
92 Pages, 8 x 10
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $20.00 (US $20.00) (CA $27.00)
Publication Date: March 2015
ISBN 9781931824606
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Mar 2015)
Ariel Goldberg’s photographer might be an essayist, philosopher, or performance artist, or they might well be you, a twenty-first-century citizen caught in the crossfire of electronic media sharing, from ubiquitous selfies capturing the minutiae of people’s lives to whistle-blowing stills leaked during wartime. In an age when anyone with a smartphone is a potential photojournalist, what separates a framed composition from real life, a chance snapshot from a monumental exposé? You’ll find a panorama of bracing responses here in Goldberg’s genre-defying texts, including confessional alt captions for irretrievable images, epistolary meditations on the unusual ways photos are viewed today, a discursive press conference that questions photographic permission, and a campy garage-sale lecture on the obsolescence of camera accessories—all underscored by the keen, enigmatic voice of a present-day photographer who knows the tricks of the trade but holds to a credo of candor, who contends both voluntarily and involuntarily with what Susan Sontag called “an ethics of seeing." —Pamela Lu
The Photographer is Ariel Goldberg’s first book of poetry and the first in a trilogy of books. The second part of the trilogy: A Book of Photographs, is forthcoming. The Estrangement Principle, a book length essay on labeling art queer, will be published in 2016. Goldberg is a research fellow at the New York Public Library’s Wertheim Study and the Friday Night Coordinator at The Poetry Project.