Janelle Lynch: Barcelona (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781934435687)

Scouring the fallow landscape around the Llobregat river and the Rub stream near Barcelona with her 8 x 10 camera, Janelle Lynch (born 1969) searches for evidence and omens of nature's life cycles. Her photographs of anthropomorphized trees, walls of litter-strewn vegetation, rocks and disintegrating leaves, all taken during a four-year stay in Barcelona between 2007 and 2011, are informed by three figures whose texts are excerpted in this volume: Roland Barthes, particularly his discussion of mourning in Camera Lucida; Charles Burchfield, whose pantheistic painterly animations of landscape have much inspired Lynch; and Wendell Berry, whose essay on approaching nature with respect and humility helped to further hone her process. Barcelona is also conceived as a homage to Lynch's grandmother, who died in 2008, and to the victims of a devastating flood in the region that occurred in 1962.

Author: Janelle Lynch
ISBN-10: 1934435686
ISBN-13: 9781934435687
Publisher: Radius Books
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2013
Pages: 114
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.43lbs
Size: 12.40h x 10.70w x 0.90d