Elisabeth Tonnard

Oceanus

This is a pocket book, good for bringing along on a sea journey. This imagetext tries to evoke the feeling of a bewildered traveling. The words are awkwardly placed, and clearly out of their element. Still they continue on, going somewhere. The goddess whispers. The sea of the book is composed of two photographs I found in a family album lost in an archive. Here again, as in Two of us, the number two breaks off into the infinite. The text cuts through Samuel Butler’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey.

B&W perfect bound paperback, 106 pages. Rochester, NY 2007.

Priced at 35 euro, plus shipping. Order through webshop.  Order through email.

See more images or view the interior of the book online here.

The book received an honorable mention in the Photography Book Now competition of 2011.

Written by tonnard

March 17, 2008 at 9:05 pm

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