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Each moving story featured in this collection pivots around an intense emotional relationship with a photograph, spanning a century and a half of images--from daguerreotype to digital. From drugstore-developed snapshots to formal portraits, the subjects of the pictures are all absent people, obsessively pursued through a viewfinder of unsettling prose. Potential lovers separate after the discovery of harsh pornography on a camera's memory card. A man drowns as his sister watches through the crystal-clear ice of a frozen river; his last act is to look at the photograph of his son he keeps in his breast pocket. A soldier has a daguerreotypist make a double exposure of him in his dead twin's uniform so their mother will think they are both alive. Ultimately each image and story reaffirms the eternal capacity of the photograph--and photography's splendid consort, light--to expose the intricacies of the human soul.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Full title: Optique
• Subtitle: Stories
• Author: Clayton Bailey
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180
• EAN: 9781550652147
• ISBN: 9781550652147
• ID: 06420282
• Publisher: Vehicule Press
• Weight: 300 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 142 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 2007

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