This Visible Speaking (eBook)

Catching Light Through The Camera's Eye

Kathryn Winograd (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
144 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
979-8-218-35269-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Dante called the most beautiful things of this world the visible parlare- the visible speaking- that comes not from our hands but God's. The surprise gift of a camera during Covid lock-down casts Kathryn Winograd into a journey through the intersections between written and visual image. Mourning what feels like the broken world, she moves between the quaking aspen of her Teller County cabin and the South Platte River near her suburban home in search of the beautiful things of this world that might speak to us: the imprint of a dead flicker, the shell of a moon snail on a window sill, or taking a puppy outside at 3 a.m. to pee and contemplating the universe. In this hybrid collection of photopoetry and prose vignettes, Winograd weaves together images of the Colorado she loves, whether wandering bull elks or cabbage white butterflies. The beautiful images in This Visible Speaking give rise to lyrical meditations on love and loss and beauty and on the voices of those early explorers of the daguerreotype and the photograph who, dazzled and wary, learned to fix the world in light.

Inhalt

This Visible Speaking: An Introduction XI

By Robert Root

Preface XIII

1. Unlocking the Camera 1

2. Shooting a Snowy Egret at Blackrock Lake 5

3. On Beauty and Finding a Dead Flicker 9

4. Owl Head at Beaver Creek 13

5. Photographing the Wild Geranium 17

6. Widow Skimmer at Ladybug Lake 21

7. Moth Orchid at the Botanical Gardens 25

8. After Reading W. Henry Fox Talbot's Account 29

8. Of How "Natural Objects Can Be Made to Delineate Themselves Without the Aid of the

Artist's Pencil"

9. Our Rock Blossom Blooms 33

10. 3 a.m. and Taking the Puppy for a Pee Beneath a New Moon 37

11. Finding a Paper Wasp Nest Hanging Below a Porch Beam 41

12. Scrawled Cow(sh Found on a Childhood Beach 45

13. Two Owls Dip Down from a Ponderosa Pine 49

14 Histogram of the Fox in My Backyard 53

15. Drawing with Light 57

15. On the anniversary of my mother's death

16. Late Summer Wasps 61

16. )And Not Bees����

17. Sweeping Dead Moths from a Window Screen 65

18. Western Painted Turtles Sunning 69

18. On the Submerged Tree my friend Called Holy

19. Photographing a Cabbage White Butter����y 73

19. at Castlewood Canyon

20. Catching Light 77

Study Guide 81

Acknowledgments 83

About the Author 85

Endnotes

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: hybrid • Nature • photography • Poetry • Prose
• ISBN-13: 979-8-218-35269-1 / 9798218352691