![]() “ With each photograph selected here, we are drawn into the story of America at the turn of the twenty-first century: a time when tradition meets transition and nothing will ever be as it once was. Memory City begins with the words of George Eastman, who observed, “Such a photographic notebooks…enables to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes that would otherwise fade from memory and be lost. ![]() ![]() Each image reminds us of how intoxicating the intangible is, how we take photographs so as to render the freezing of time, so that we may go back to look again and again, at what once was and never will be again. Edited to an exquisite rhythm of color and black and white, the book is a brilliantly produced objet d’art, with photographs that spill off the pages, revealing the fragility of the image in physical form. ![]() The photographs in Memory City were taken during five trips from April 2012 to April 2013. ![]()
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