Description
At seventy, world-famous photographer Maude Coffin Pratt prepares for a triumphant retrospective by revisiting the vast archive that made her reputation. But the images—capturing the beautiful, obscure, obscene, and famous—also summon suppressed memories and force her to confront the private motives behind a life spent looking through the lens. Moving between art, ambition, celebrity, and desire, the novel explores the uneasy boundary between observer and subject, and the stories photographs preserve or conceal. Sharp, psychologically probing, and richly atmospheric, it is a compelling portrait of artistic obsession and the complicated cost of turning life into images.
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paperback
Houghton Mifflin
Published Jan 1, 1978
359 pages
ISBN: 9780395264751
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First Published
1978
Language
eng
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