The Art of Ruin OOP I Want to Take Picture

I Want to Take Picture features black-and-white images which Burke shot during several trips through Southeast Asia in the early 1980s

Accompanying every portrait is a text written by the operator on some aspect of his or her experience

75 four-color plates

6 x 8 inches

The Art of Ruin OOP I Want to Take PictureIn his new monograph, The Art of Ruin, Robert Stivers explores the distances that keep memory strange and uninhabitable. The objects presented in this series are, to some extent, recognizable. But the psychic experience the artist infuses seamlessly into these photographs, transforms themevoking both a sense of loss and recovery. The result is a richly textured and nuanced body of photographs examining the nature of ruin. twin palms publishers january