Promises to Keep - by Laura Serani (Hardcover)

Number of Pages: 104
Genre: Photography
Sub-Genre: Individual Photographers
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: L'Artiere
Age Range: Adult
Book theme: Artists' Books
Author: Laura Serani
Language: English

Book Synopsis

- The journal of a long voyage begun in the 1970s, which has repeatedly taken Max Pam back to India, to the Far East, to London or Paris, and whose starting and ending point is always Australia- New and unusual layout- First edition limited to 500 copiesThis is not so much a travel journal as a diary that confirms Pam's interest in photography and his turn to it as a form of autobiographical expression. In order to tell his own history, as well as his stories, Max Pam has invented and gradually perfected an original visual language that recognizes no distinctions between writing and photography, between an image borrowed and an image taken, between the effects of chemistry and those of painting, between collage and patchwork. The result is a collection of forcefully suggestive images that, in breathtaking sequences, establish dialogues among reality, hallucinations, references of all kinds, the intimate and social spheres.

About the Author

Max Pam (Melbourne, 1949) is an Australian photographer. Pam's first survey exhibition was held at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1986, followed by a mid-career retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1991, his largest solo show to date was at the Sogo Nara Museum of Art in Japan, and he was the subject of a major exhibition at the Comptoir de la Photographie in Paris in 1990, which covered the work of three decades. He has published several photographic monographs and 'carnets de voyage'.