Hesitating Beauty
Joshua Lutz
Schilt Publishing
English
Hardcover
49 pages
170 x 240 mm
2012
ISBN 9789053307762
Breaking down the structure of the photograph as truth and the book as narrative, Joshua Lutz’s second monograph, Hesitating Beauty, is an intimate portrait unlike other photographic models. Rethinking how photographs and text can function, Lutz blends family archives, interviews and letters with his own photographic practice seamlessly into a precious, fictitious experience of a life and family consumed by mental illness. Instead of showing us what it looks like, Hesitating Beauty is able to play with our own conceptions of reality to show us what it feels like.
Joshua Lutz: “Holding on so tightly to what I believed was sanity and being consumed by fear of depression and schizophrenia prevented me from being fully present to my mother’s reality. The past few years, as she slipped away from the aggressive paranoia and depression of my youth to an almost calming sense of delusion, made it much easier for me to rid the anger that veiled my life and to attempt to find a place of empathy and compassion as I managed her care. In making this work and simultaneously falling deeper into her psychosis, I tried to imagine a time when the past present and future collided; a place where the weight of memory is heavier than reality.”
About the Artist
Joshua Lutz is an artist and educator working primarily in photography and text. He has an MFA from Bard College/ ICP and a BFA from Bard College.
joshualutz.com
About the Publisher
Schilt Publishing & Gallery is a publishing house specialised in high quality photography and art books as well as a commercial gallery representing a range of top class artists from all over the world.
The aim of the company is to offer a worldwide platform for its artists as well as being a family of artists in the old-fashioned way.
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