| #349887 in eBooks | 2014-03-26 | 2014-03-26 | File type: PDF||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Ghost Essayist|By Vira Mcgeorge|This is one of the most engaging books about photography, art, the image etc that I have read in a long while. The essays are varied and fascinating, from ideas about content to questions of form. It's as much about Guibert as it is the art of the photograph. It's tragic that he died young of AIDS: the world lost a good essayist and artist.|||
“Why has no thoughtful publisher translated and published all of Guibert’s works, in trim editions, each cover graced with his seraphic image? . . . To get Guibert’s full message, which isn’t light-years apart from Susan Son
Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays—meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems—and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on photography was written in response to Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida, but its deeply personal contents go far beyond that canonical text. Some essays talk of Guibert’s parents and friends, some describe old family photographs ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Ghost Image | Hervé Guibert. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
