I WALK TOWARD THE SUN WHICH IS ALWAYS GOING DOWN
I WALK TOWARD THE SUN WHICH IS ALWAYS GOING DOWN
In Alan Huck's picture-text book, I walk toward the setting sun.
still down? Switching between photographs of the peripheries of the
city and an interior monologue written in fragmentary prose at the first
person, this hybrid essay draws on the ambulatory work of writers
such as WG Sebald and Annie Dillard, both integrated into the literary network and
cultural references interwoven throughout the text of the book. In part
metafiction about the working process of a photographer and partly
interdisciplinary exploration of its relationship to a particular place, the author
uses the essential indeterminacy of photography and written language
to create an attention exercise that moves seamlessly between
both mediums.
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