The Book of Emotions (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781564786814)

Isolating these moments in his memory and attempting to analyze them much like a lens, he envisions "a haiku stripped of rhetoric that captures only what is in front of the camera." Yet, deprived of his sight, the photographer now must reconstruct his experiences as a series of affective snapshots, a diary of his emotions as they were frozen on this or that day. The result, then, is not the description of a remembered image, but of the emotional memory the image evokes. Joao Almino here gives us a trenchant portrait of an artist trying to close the gap between objective vision and sentimental memory, leafing through a catalog of his accomplishments and failures in a violent, artificial, universal city, and trying to reassemble the puzzle that was his life.

Author: Joao Almino
ISBN-10: 1564786811
ISBN-13: 9781564786814
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2012
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.60w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2012 pg. 88
Booklist 01/01/2012 pg. 35
Publishers Weekly 02/13/2012