Michael Snow: My Mother’s Collection of Photographs
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Author: Snow, Michael
Over the past half-century, Michael Snow has explored the nature of perception, consciousness, language and temporality. This title is dedicated to the life of his adventurous mother, whose trove of family photographs provide a narrative throughline here. Snow consolidates his mother’s photo albums, presenting a total of 1,500 images. The compiled images tell a complete biographical story – one that Snow leaves intact on the surface but layers with interpretation. In a tenderly penned foreword, he explains the simple impetus for the project: '[The photographs] are so beautiful and so historic that I wish to share them with others.' While he has integrated small samples of these albums into his work before – notably figuring in his landmark catalogue for the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1970, Michael Snow/A Survey – this volume provides a much larger and more unified selection. He brings his own layer of interpretation to the photographs by drawing out patterns within the collection and his mother’s writing. Snow creates an album that is fully his own, embracing, as art historian Martha Langford describes, a 'deep understanding and surrender to form'.
ISBN 9781636810676. DelMonico Books/Art Gallery of Ontario. hb. 324 pages. 1500 colour ills. 30 x 22 cm.
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Over the past half-century, Michael Snow has explored the nature of perception, consciousness, language and temporality. This title is dedicated to the life of his adventurous mother, whose trove of family photographs provide a narrative throughline here. Snow consolidates his mother’s photo albums, presenting a total of 1,500 images. The compiled images tell a complete biographical story – one that Snow leaves intact on the surface but layers with interpretation. In a tenderly penned foreword, he explains the simple impetus for the project: '[The photographs] are so beautiful and so historic that I wish to share them with others.' While he has integrated small samples of these albums into his work before – notably figuring in his landmark catalogue for the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1970, Michael Snow/A Survey – this volume provides a much larger and more unified selection. He brings his own layer of interpretation to the photographs by drawing out patterns within the collection and his mother’s writing. Snow creates an album that is fully his own, embracing, as art historian Martha Langford describes, a 'deep understanding and surrender to form'.
ISBN 9781636810676. DelMonico Books/Art Gallery of Ontario. hb. 324 pages. 1500 colour ills. 30 x 22 cm.
available