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Paul Graham
其他書名
A Shimmer of Possibiliy
出版Gerhard Steidl Druckerei und Verlag, 2007-12
主題Photography / GeneralPhotography / Individual Photographers / General
ISBN38652148359783865214836
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=B9cEPwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Perhaps instead of standing by the river bank scooping out water, its better to immerse yourself in the current, and watch how the river comes up, flows smoothly around your presence, and gently reforms the other side like you were never there. Paul Graham Inspired by Chekhovs short stories, Paul Grahams a shimmer of possibility comprises 10 individual books, each volume a photographic short story of everyday life in todays America. Most of these books contain small sequences of images, such as a man smoking a cigarette while he waits for a bus in Las Vegas, or a walk down a street in Boston on an autumn afternoon. Often two, three or four sequences intertwine in a single book, like separate but related lives co-existing in suburban America. Sometimes the quiet narrative breaks unexpectedly into a sublime moment while a couple carry their shopping home in Texas a small child dances with a plastic bag in a garden; as a man cuts the grass in Pittsburgh it begins to rain and the low sun breaks through to illuminate every raindrop. These filmic haikus avoid the forceful summation we usually find in photography, shunning any tidy packaging of the world into perfect images. Instead, life simply flows around and past us while we stand and stare, quietly astonished by its beauty and grace.