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Forget Me Not

Name: Forget Me Not
Author: Geoffrey Batchen
ISBN: 9781568986197

by Geoffrey Batchen

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Overview

Forget Me Not explores the curious and centuries-old practice of strengthening the emotional appeal of photographs by embellishing themwith text, paint, frames, embroidery, fabric, string, hair, ﬂowers, bullets, cigar wrappers, butterﬂy wings, and moreto 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.

About the Author, Geoffrey Batchen

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