Darkroom
Subtitle: a family exposure
By: Jill Christman.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Christman, Jill, 1969-; Chrisman family.; Artists -- United States -- Family relationships.; United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Darkroom: A Family Exposure is Jill Christman's account of her first thirty years. Although her story runs the gamut of dramatic life events, including childhood sexual abuse, the deaths of loved ones, and psychological trauma, Christman's memoir is much more than a litany of horrors; instead, it is a look at a life worth surviving.".

"Through a shifting narrative of text and photographs, Christman explores the intersection of image and memory and considers the ways photographs force us to rework our original memories. Darkroom is a page-turning and disturbing journey that begins with an older brother's near fatal burning and progresses through a counter-culture childhood in which her free-spirited mother moves the family to an isolated mountaintop.

The story advances into an adolescence of eating disorders and barely remembered sex; slams into a young adulthood of love, literature, bulimia, drugs, death, and therapists; and ends soon after a beloved uncle bleeds to death in a federal prison while serving a ten-year sentence for growing marijuana."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction"--P. facing t.p.
Table of contents: title: Burned images; title: Swinging; title: Baby in the bubble; title: The Ingraham family, 1970-1980; title: Condition of pregnancy; title: Care and feeding; title: Tracks, signs, and scat; title: Sentencing; title: Launching the Prozac nation; title: Picture this; title: Storyboards; title: Isolated monkey; title: Highway 101 Tillamook; title: Grieving in Costa Rica; title: Sentencing II; title: Days on the wall; title: Days on the wall II; title: Sweet home Alabama; title: Get the Crown Royal; title: That place I've been looking for; title: Is this the image you want to be left with?