The Missing Photograph
$43.18
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
20 July 2025
Summary
The Missing Photograph is a collection of stories and essays, each one matched to a particular photograph that is displayed opposite the text. The pieces touch on the relations between photography and story telling. Whether it is a story about a family outing, the planet Saturn or even a self-portrait, the images and words show they can refract off one another.
An image can re-frame and re-purpose a story while words can elucidate and draw out the more abstruse aspects of an …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923388048 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1923388045 |
| Author: | Christopher Race |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
‘Using erudition and his introspective ego, we have the most significant discourse on the studium (the broad subject) and punctum (intense detail) of a photograph since Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida.’
John Gollings AM - architectural photographer
‘A dazzling act of both memory and the creative imagination.’
Suzy Baldwin - editor, writer
Christopher Race
Christopher Race published short stories in the 1980s before taking a BA degree at The University of Melbourne. His career has been that of an editor and writer, working in London as a copywriter before returning to Melbourne and working as Editorial Manager for the Australian internet search engine, LookSmart Intl. He worked as a freelance editor while at RMIT University gaining his Grad. Dip. Info Management to become a librarian in 2008. He has held positions in Melbourne and Central Victoria. More recently Christopher Race has being writing and publishing poetry both as an author, Still Life With Grandmother, 2015, and as an editor for Shots from the Chamber, 2016. Since 2016 he has been writing prose including The Missing Photograph.
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