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Backscatter - Between Here and There (Hardcover)
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Backscatter - Between Here and There (Hardcover)
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"Backscatter is the reflection of particles, waves, or signals back
to the direction from which they came: in underwater photography,
back to the lens. The reflection, however, is diffuse, as opposed
to clear like a mirror, thus softening images and even making them
obscure. For this book, Tom Young has embraced backscatter as both
subject and metaphor to render spaces below and above the water's
surface-between here and there-in highly original ways. Our senses
are awakened as Young creates images that evoke an evolutionary
path from sea to land, that speak of a global environment
increasingly threatened by human action, and that enlighten our
consciousness with an abiding spirit larger than ourselves. In
Young's previous book, the masterful Timeline: Learning to See with
My Eyes Closed, the artist was drawn to the way multiple images can
be assembled into a single photographic plate that both alters the
intent and enhances the meaning of the individual images. Young has
followed that same path in Backscatter, as the edge of one image is
shared with the edge of another that simultaneously can fuse them
into one voice or let them remain as separate voices, suggesting a
deep conversation either way. As the sequence evolves, so, too,
does the visual narrative whose assembly of diverse images presents
unexpected relationships and an unforgettable storyline.
Metaphorically, Backscatter is about looking head on into a void
where what lies above and below the water's surface can seem
harmonious yet helter-skelter. As John Rohrbach observes in his
afterword, this is a "ferocious book" that brings us to a myriad
places, each one real and imagined, conveying an overall sense of
the human journey through life."
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