Jude's latest series of photographs, Other Nature, adds a more intimate, diaristic strain to this line of inquiry. In this handsome volume, two separate sets of his own 4 x 5 color pictures (made between 2001 and 2008) combine to create a subtle and uncanny instance of what Jude has called the slippery threshold of narrative in still images. Drawing on the concerns of the New Topographics photographers, Jude's accounts of anonymous motel rooms and the stranger regions of the American landscape could, at first glance, be mistaken for an ecological critique. But as the exterior and interior details of these environments (floral patterns, wood grain, sunlight) begin to merge, interrupt and inform each other, the book shifts into a more abstract, subjective register, provoking reflections on photography, the visible world, and the things hovering just outside our physical perception.
Title: Other nature Publisher: The Ice Plant Publication Date: 2008 Binding: Hardback Book Condition: Excellent Dust Jacket Condition: N/A Edition: First Edition Run: N/A Language: English Size: 27 x 19.5 cm Pages: 80
