In this dark wood: .

A study of urban alienation in America. In a haunting, modern-gothic style, it pairs images of people walking alone through nighttime city streets with 90 different English translations, collected by the artist, of the famous first lines of Dante's Inferno: "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / ché la diritta via era smarrita." ("In the middle of the journey of our life / I found myself in a dark wood / for the straight way was lost"). The images were appropriated from the Joseph Selle collection at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, which c... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Tonnard, Elisabeth, 1973-
Dokumenttyp: StillImage
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
Verlag/Hrsg.: Elisabeth Tonnard and J & L Books
Schlagwörter: Artists' books--Netherlands / Conceptual art / Visual Studies Workshop--Photograph collections--In art / Selle / Joseph--Photograph collections--In art / Portrait photography / Street photography / Dante Alighieri / 1265-1321--Quotations--In art / 1265-1321--Inferno--English--In art
Sprache: Englisch
Italian
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Link(s) : https://digitalcollections.saic.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3Ajfabc_7880

A study of urban alienation in America. In a haunting, modern-gothic style, it pairs images of people walking alone through nighttime city streets with 90 different English translations, collected by the artist, of the famous first lines of Dante's Inferno: "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / ché la diritta via era smarrita." ("In the middle of the journey of our life / I found myself in a dark wood / for the straight way was lost"). The images were appropriated from the Joseph Selle collection at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, which contains over a million negatives from a company of street photographers who worked in San Francisco from the 1940s to the 70s. This edition is a reprint of a work originally self-published in 2008. Text in English and Italian.