Devil’s Promenade
Lara Shipley and Antone Dolezal
Overlapse
English
Hardcover
152 pages
230 x 170 mm
2021
ISBN 9781999446857
Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley return to their home region of the Ozarks in the American Midwest, where locals persist in their search for a legendary floating orb of light that can only be seen from the Devil’s Promenade. It’s a lushly wooded road in an area where wanderers flock to seek possible redemption, or just to escape the boredom and darkness of ordinary rural life. Subtle but revealing portraits are mixed with archives and reinterpretations of mythical, folkloric tales. It’s a nuanced, mysterious and tender representation by photographers returning to the place where they grew up, but also reveals the current, stark realities of a remote place in America.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/collections/photobooks/products/devils-promenade)
About the Artists
Lara Shipley is an American photographer. She exhibits in galleries across the United States, and her work has appeared in notable exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, GuatePhoto international photography festival in Guatemala, the Benaki Museum in Greece and a recent solo exhibition at the international photography festival Cortona on the Move, in Italy.
larashipley.com
(source: https://www.larashipley.com/bio)
Antone Dolezal is a visual artist whose body of work employs photography, video, sound, archival materials and bookmaking to survey the cultural and political dynamics of American history, folklore and mythology. His work has been exhibited widely and is held in notable public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, New Mexico Museum of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art – Special Collections and Yale University’s Collection of Western Americana.
antonedolezal.com
(source: https://www.antonedolezal.com/bio-cv)
About the Publisher
Overlapse is an independent visual arts and photobooks imprint based in London UK, founded in 2015 by publisher Tiffany Jones. They primarily publish books focused on storytelling. Their subjects and stories address social, cultural, and environmental issues, with themes connected to human experience.
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(source: https://www.overlapse.com/about/)
