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A book-length essay about photography’s unique ability to ease the ache of human mortality Drawing on the writings of Wallace Stevens, Marilynne Robinson and other poets, artists, musicians and thinkers, Brooklyn-based photographer Tim Carpenter (born 1968) argues passionately—in one main essay and a series of lively digressions—that photography is unique among the arts in its capacity for easing the fundamental ache of our mortality; for managing the breach that separates the self from all that is not the self; for enriching one’s sense of freedom and personhood; and for cultivating meaning in an otherwise meaningless reality. Printed in three colors that reflect the various “voices” of the book, the text design follows several channels of thought, inviting various approaches to reading. A unique and instructive contribution to the literature on photography, Carpenter’s research offers both a timely polemic and a timeless resource for those who use a camera.

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In Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road, his second book with the Ice Plant, Brooklyn-based photographer Tim Carpenter (born 1968) revisits the Central Illinois topography of his first monograph, Local Objects, with a sequence of 56 black-and-white, medium-format photographs, all made on a single winter morning. Where Local Objects meandered this semi-rural Midwestern landscape through changing seasons, here Carpenter follows a straightforward path, taking the viewer on a two-hour walk from point A to point B. Nothing much happens along this narrative arc there are fallow fields, standing water, dormant trees, the occasional tire track on worn pavement yet Carpenter explores the stillness of this outdoor space with a palpable, almost erotic longing, discovering complex subtleties at every turn. The photographs in Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road are made with an intensity of attention and a lightness of touch.

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