{"product_id":"shadows-of-reality-a-catalogue-of-wg-sebalds-photographic-materials-9780262548298","title":"Shadows of Reality: A Catalogue of W.G. Sebald's Photographic Materials","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first-ever volume of the photographs of German writer W.G. Sebald, exquisitely designed to shed new light on his creative process, as it chronicles the images and encounters that shaped his writing life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eShadows of Reality\u003c\/i\u003e presents a unique, fully illustrated catalogue of W.G. Sebald's photographs: an extraordinary combination of film negatives, prints, and slides from the University of East Anglia's photographic collection, the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, and the Sebald Estate. Complementing the exhibition \u003ci\u003eLines of Sight: W.G. Sebald's East Anglia \u003c\/i\u003eand edited by literary scholar Clive Scott and photography curator Nick Warr, this wonderfully comprehensive book covers the multiple photographic facets of Sebald's published work and includes a substantial amount of material that has not been made public before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntroduced by Nick Warr, who offers an intriguing overview of the author's critical relationship to photography, \u003ci\u003eShadows of Reality\u003c\/i\u003e also includes an illuminating interview with Michael Brandon-Jones, the photographer who collaborated with Sebald on all of his publications. The book features a collection of extracts--principally on photography--from interviews with Sebald himself, bequeathed to the archive of recordings held at the University of East Anglia by his close friend Gordon Turner, who also provides a memoir. Accompanying these are inspired essays by Clive Scott and Angela Breidbach on Sebald's writing-with-photographs and the complex and mercurial interactions of those photographs with narrative design. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA deeply important collection for anyone interested in Sebald's creative processes or the ways in which photography might serve fiction, \u003ci\u003eShadows of Reality\u003c\/i\u003e is an inexhaustible treasure trove of new discoveries and revelations about the cherished international author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262548298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464","brand":"Clive Scott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43166035247285,"sku":"9780262548298","price":50.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8238bcb9-6829-49ae-8a6c-adde9d797f9f.jpg?v=1696919058","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/shadows-of-reality-a-catalogue-of-wg-sebalds-photographic-materials-9780262548298","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}