ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE

Christopher Wool
ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE

Photographs: Christopher Wool

Publisher: DAAD

350 pages

Year: 1993

ISBN: 3-98357-043-8

Price: 400 €

Comments: Softcover under dust jacket, 28 x 21,7 cm, b&w photographs. First edition of 1000 copies. In very good condition other than tiny edgewear on the dust jacket.

Evocative black-and-white images of the streets of Europe taken between 1989 and 1993, a personal travelogue which does not easily yeild its destination to the reader. Featuring stray dogs street scenes architectural details and still lifes the grainy high-contrast nearly abstract work suggests the fleeting nature of travel and the stolen moments that collectively comprise lived experience (see Parr-Badger vol.3).The photographic prints were xeroxed, then offset printed - suggesting an obsessive desire to recover lost experiences.