{"product_id":"janet-malcolm-still-pictures-on-photography-and-memory-regular","title":"Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory","description":"For decades, Janet Malcolm’s books and dispatches for \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e New York Review of Books \u003c\/em\u003epoked and prodded at reportorial and biographical convention, gesturing toward the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. In \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStill Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e, she turns her gimlet eye on her own life—a task demanding a writer just as peerlessly skillful as she was widely known to be.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStill Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, then, is not the story of a life but an event on its own terms, an encounter with identity and family photographs as poignant and original as anything since Roland Barthes’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCamera Lucida\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. Malcolm looks beyond the content of the image and the easy seductions of self-recognition, constructing a memoir from memories that pose questions of their own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected in conjunction with The Drawing Center's exhibition\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/drawingcenter.org\/exhibitions\/of-mythic-worlds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e Of Mythic Worlds: Works from The Distant Past through the Present\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.","brand":"Macmillan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248700063897,"sku":"9780374605131","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/9611\/5865\/files\/JanetMalcolmStillPictures.png?v=1689359839","url":"https:\/\/shop.drawingcenter.org\/products\/janet-malcolm-still-pictures-on-photography-and-memory-regular","provider":"The Drawing Center","version":"1.0","type":"link"}