LEADER 02259nam 2200337 450 001 9910580299303321 005 20230430145837.0 010 $a1-953035-77-9 035 $a(CKB)5600000000474035 035 $a(NjHacI)995600000000474035 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000474035 100 $a20230430d2021 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCloser to Dust /$fSara A. Rich 210 1$aBrooklyn, New York :$cPunctum Books,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (108 pages) 330 $a"No one thinks straight. At least no one remembers straight. But ten years ago, things were different, weren't they? Roland Barthes once wrote that color in a photograph is like make-up on a corpse. No one is fooled. In anarchic denial of convenient truths, a young international couple meet and marry on a small Mediterranean island. Ten years later, the couple separate in part due to complications with immigration laws. Following this transcontinental rupture, fragmented histories emerge in response to the woman's encounters with a series of color snapshots. There is death here, familiar to the mourner, as the photographs issue their special powers to magically and auspiciously predict the future and simultaneously to permit the return of the dead. The woman recognizes pieces of herself as past objects indexed within photographic stills, but paradoxically, she is present, outside in this chaos trying not to fall apart. The images and their objects yawn to remind us of the reluctant destiny of all our beloved memories, bodies, and things: that is, to disintegrate. Borrowing its title from a passage in The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald, Closer to Dust is a se?ance, a gathering of invitees: inherently biased elegies, the images that conjured them, and the reader- viewer in attendance who is warmly invited to order these intimate fragments into cohesion." 606 $aPhotographs$vFiction 615 0$aPhotographs 676 $a813.54 700 $aRich$b Sara A.$01159945 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910580299303321 996 $aCloser to Dust$93025442 997 $aUNINA