First printing of 'To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions' by @timcarpenter sold out immediately. Happy to announce that this 4.25 x 7 inch, 288 page book-length essay about photography’s unique ability to ease the ache of human mortality is Back in Stock. Thanks, @the.ice.plant Alec Soth @littlebrownmushroom writes: I don't know anybody who believes in photography more than Tim Carpenter. His book-length essay draws widely from literature, music, and philosophy, but it's in service of his passionate sermon on photographs and their ability to elevate our experience of the world. Drawing on the writings of Wallace Stevens, Marilynne Robinson and other poets, artists, musicians and thinkers, Carpenter 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. Read. more via linkinbio. #timcarpenter #timcarpenterbook #photobookjousting #photographersphotographer #tophotographistolearnhowtodie https://www.instagram.com/p/CpVcwJ_O1A2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
