Two of us
Subtitle: encounters
By: Elisabeth Tonnard
Contributors: Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867; Visual Studies Workshop
Publisher: [Visual Studies Workshop Press]
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Artists' books; Photograph collections; Street photography
Other titles: Encounters
Notes: This book, designed and printed like a novel, reconstructs a pattern found in the immense archive of a street photographer working in San Francisco from the 40's to the 70's (the Joseph Selle collection at the Visual Studies Workshop). It shows countless doubles, walking the city streets. The images are combined with a poem by Baudelaire, which is broken apart into separate words, set, and rotated progressively at an angle below each photograph. Flipping the pages causes the words to pirouette as the poem reads sequentially from front-to-back on the recto and, on the verso, from back-to-front. Cf. Artist's Website.