In this dark wood
By: Elisabeth Tonnard
Contributors: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321; Visual Studies Workshop
Publisher: [Visual Studies Workshop Press]
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Rochester, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Artists' books; Photograph collections; Street photography
Notes: This book is a modern gothic. It pairs images of people walking alone in nighttime city streets with 90 different English translations I collected of the first lines of Dante's Inferno. The images, showing a crowd of solitary figures, are selected from the same archive as used for Two of Us (the extraordinary Joseph Selle collection at the Visual Studies Workshop which contains over a million negatives from a company of street photographers working in San Francisco from the 40's to the 70's).  The book is set up in a repetitious way, to stress a sense of similarity, endlessness and interchangeability. The images are re-expressions of each other, and so are the texts. Cf. Artist's Website.