DARK WOODS ART MOVIE
Movie marquees caught in the upper corners of the frames read movie titles of violence and doom “Ring of Fire,” “Hell is a City,” “…from Hell,” “Petrified World, “Nightfall,” “Corridors of Blood.” Jeffrey Ladd, 5b4 blog, November 14, 2009 What is amazing about this work is how, accompanied by the suggestion of the text, the environs surrounding each subject heighten the metaphor. Selle’s unsuspecting subjects walking alone and caught in the light of the flash, become the multitude of alienated souls wandering “the dark woods” of the city. The concept is simple and clinical, but the result is a powerfully emotional read. In this Dark Wood is a haunting collection of photographs and text, compiled by the author.
The J&L edition of the book won the runner-up award in the Maribor photobook award 2018.
It was shortlisted in the 2012 Artists’ Books of the Moment Award, Art Gallery of York University, Canada. The self-published book received an award in the Fine Art category of the 2010 Photography Book Now Competition. Ladd also included the book in his top ten of best books of 2009. The images are re-expressions of each other, and so are the texts.Īn earlier version of the book was self-published in Rochester, New York, 2008 as a B&W perfect bound paperback. The book is set up in a repetitious way, to stress a sense of similarity, endlessness and interchangeability.
DARK WOODS ART ARCHIVE
The images, showing a crowd of solitary figures, are selected from the same archive as used for my book Two of Us (the extraordinary Joseph Selle collection at the Visual Studies Workshop which contains over a million negatives from a company of street photographers working in San Francisco from the 40’s to the 70’s). It pairs images of people walking alone in nighttime city streets with 90 different English translations I collected of the first lines of Dante’s Inferno.
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