Like a Lake
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5315-0994-1 (ISBN)
A vivid, imaginative response to the sensual and erotic in postwar American photography, with attention to the beauty of the nude, both male and female
When photographer Coda Gray befriends a family with a special interest in a young boy, the motivation behind his special attention is difficult to grasp, "like water slipping through our fingers." Can a man innocently love a boy who is not his own?
Using fiction to reveal the truths about families, communities, art objects, love, and mourning, Like a Lake tells the story of ten-year-old Nico, who lives with his father (an Italian- American architect) and his mother (a Japanese-American sculptor who learned how to draw while interned during World War II). Set in the 1960s, this is a story of aesthetic perfection waiting to be broken. Nico's midcentury modern house, with its Italian pottery jars along the outside and its interior lit by Japanese lanterns. The elephant-hide gray, fiberglass reinforced plastic 1951 Eames rocking chair, with metal legs and birch runners. Clam consommé with kombu, giant kelp, yuzu rind, and a little fennel—in each bowl, two clams opened like a pair of butterflies, symbols of the happy couple. Nico's boyish delight in developing photographs under the red safety light of Coda's "Floating Zendo"— the darkroom boat that he keeps on Lake Tahoe.
The lives of Nico, his parents, and Coda embody northern California's postwar landscape, giving way to fissures of alternative lifestyles and poetic visions. Author Carol Mavor addresses the sensuality and complexity of a son's love for his mother and that mother's own erotic response to it. The relationship between the mother and son is paralleled by what it means for a boy to be a model for a male photographer and to be his muse. Just as water can freeze into snow and ice, melt back into water, and steam, love takes on new forms with shifts of atmosphere. Like a Lake's haunting images and sensations stay with the reader.
Carol Mavor is a writer who lives in Manchester England. Her most recent books are Aurelia: Art and Literature Through the Mouth of the Fairy Tale; Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour; and Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetée, Sans Soleil and Hiroshima mon amour.
Millions of Years Ago 1
My Nico 2
Unfolding a Flood 4
Turning the Key 5
The Memory of Lake Tahoe 16
My Mother's Eyes 17
My Mother 18
Coda 21
By Chance 25
When Bamboo Shoots Poke Their Heads out of the Earth 29
Blue Rambler 30
Tender Buttons 47
Waiting 49
Refusing to be Plucked 55
We Want Roses 56
She Sleeps with Him Every Night 59
She-Wolf Made of Rock 61
Blue Ticket 65
Learning to Swim 66
Floating Studio, Floating Zendo 67
Fannette Island 76
Floating Zendos and Mentorgartens 79
I Learned about Snowflakes 82
I Learned about the Birds of Lake Tahoe 84
Summer Snow Cake 86
Love or Affection 88
Mary's Dream 89
Each Other's Pockets 90
Black Cloth 91
Brown Kimono 94
Something Broke 96
The Voice of the Lake 101
Moon Writing 102
Artichoke 104
No Name for Him 107
What's in a Name? 108
Like Piles of Laundry? 109
Frozen Pond 111
Coda's Dream 113
Like Mother and Son 114
Fifteen Good Prints 115
Glass Moon 117
Tsukimi Udon (Moon Noodles) 118
Soaring 121
Walking Underwater 123
Open My Heart 125
Like Rice on Chopsticks 126
Like a Sequence of Poems 127
Waiting, Still 128
Morpheus 129
Blue Marble 131
Something Like Love 132
Afterword (Afterward): Like the Navel of My Dream of Nico 133
Acknowledgments 139
Illustrations 141
Notes 143
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.05.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 17 b/w illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 254 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5315-0994-0 / 1531509940 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5315-0994-1 / 9781531509941 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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