The Book of Emotions

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 02/07/2012
ISBN: 9781564786814
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Library Journal 01/01/2012 pg. 88
Booklist 01/01/2012 pg. 35
Publishers Weekly 02/13/2012