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Forget Me Not

Photography and Remembrance
Princeton Architectural Press By Geoffrey Batchen

7-3/4 x 9-1/4 in; 128 pp ; 80 color images
Paperback
Published in July, 2006
ISBN 156898619X
ISBN13 9781568986197
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$18.95  

Forget Me Not -- Forget Me Not explores the curious and centuries-old practice of strengthening the emotional appeal of photographs by embellishing them—with text, paint, frames, embroidery, fabric, string, hair, flowers, bullets, cigar wrappers, butterfly wings, and more—to create strange and often beautiful hybrid objects. Available now in paperback, this spellbinding book features color photographs of eighty such objects, extraordinary works of art, part memento, part obsessive assemblage, created by ordinary people from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century.

Geoffrey Batchen teaches the history of photography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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"These beautiful objects bear witness to the age-old struggle to spare photography's subjects from oblivion. Thinking outside the box, Batchen once again combines an innovative curatorial practice with a provocative brand of art-historical writing." - Artforum