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Author:
Bernadette Mayer
Publisher:
siglio
Date:
June 9, 2020
In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: for one month she shot a roll of 35mm film each day and kept a journal. The result was a conceptual work that investigates the nature of memory, its surfaces, textures and material. This publication brings together the full sequence of images and text for the first time in book form, making space for a work that has been legendary but mostly invisible.
What The Reviewers Say
Even though it was conceived in the moment of Xerox and Selectrics – long before the distribution formats for which its style is optimized – Bernadette Mayer’s Memory highlights other aspects of our current mediascape: the compulsory documentation of quotidian banality; the accumulation of massive time-stamped archives of bite-sized data; monumentalized ephemerality; distracting multimedia juxtaposition; and the sparks and flashes that make it all worthwhile.
...a treasure of a book.
In Siglio’s reprint, which joins the images and text in book form for the first time, I find a new book entirely.
Whatever memory is, Memory was an exploration of the layers of what a person thinks they remember firsthand.
