Trip
Lipper, a skilled photographer, joins noteworthy fiction writer Barthelme in a collaboration that pairs text with pictures. A journey is the ostensible theme, but the two artists are not necessarily traveling the same road, though either part of the book would stand alone. Lipper's photos are humorous, arcane, and evocative of places and experiences that are both mundane and exceptional. Barthelme's words transmit fragments of human experiences and memories in a style his readers will find familiar. Only occasionally does the text refer even tangentially to the image of the facing page, and readers with expectations regarding pictures and captions may feel frustrated at finding no apparent connection. While this collaboration, which coincided with an exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art, will appeal to those familiar with current trends in art photography, the book will have little appeal to audiences interested in traditional photography. For larger collections.DKathleen Collins, Bank of America Corporate Archives, San FranciscoCopyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.