Knit club
By: Carolyn Drake ; essay by Rebecca Bengal
Publisher: TBW Books
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Oakland, California
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781942953401
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Pictorial works; Photography of women; Mothers
Description: "A foreboding meditation in the vein of Southern Gothic literature, Drake's most recent body of work emerged through her collaboration with an enigmatic group of women loosely calling themselves "Knit Club." The nature of the club is ambiguous. It is a cross between a gang, a cult of mysteries, and a group of friends bound by secrets only they share.  The book follows a narrative structure loosely borrowed from Faulkner's As I Lay Dying-- that is to say, not one omniscient narrator but many disparate stream-of-consciousness voices. We sense the authorship of the photographs to be collaborative, the result of creative play between Drake and the club in which she found herself embedded, their process a kind of alchemy. In the style of the Gothic, Drake's masterful use of color to create mood opens the door to the tension between the real and the supernatural. What we find, however, is not grotesque but something vital. A community that manages to exist outside the gaze or control of men. Women, children, and mothers, shrouded in masks and mystery to live a life on their own terms."--from the publisher.
Notes: "Edit and sequence by Carolyn Drake and Andres Gonzalez."--colophon.

"Book design by Paul Schiek and Lester Rosso."--colophon

Aperture Paris Photo Book Shortlist, 2020.
Table of contents: title: Sticks and leaves / Rebecca Bengal; title: [plates].