Elisabeth Tonnard

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. The text cuts through Samuel Butler’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey.

Digital print, perfect bound paperback, 106 pages. Rochester, NY 2007.

The third print run became available in 2023.

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

The book is included in the collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Beinecke library, Bibliothèque Kandinsky (Centre Pompidou), Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bodleian Library (special collections at Weston Library), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Chelsea College of Arts at the University of the Arts London, Columbia University, Elliston Poetry Room at Langsam Library, Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, International Center of Photography Library (New York), Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature, John M. Flaxman Library at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago (Joan Flasch collection), Kunstbibliothek (Berlin), Kunst- und museumsbibliothek Köln (Museum Ludwig), MoMA Library, National Library of The Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rijksmuseum Bibliotheek, San Telmo Museum, Tate Library, The New York Public Library, UWE (Bower Ashton) Library, Winchester School of Art Library, Yale University Library, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Munich).