Stuff I Gotta Remember Not To Forget
Darin Mickey
J&L Books
English
Hardcover
Edition of 1000
48 pages
265 x 200 mm
2012
ISBN 9780974690872
In 2001, Darin Mickey began to document his father’s life at work and at home. Stuff I Gotta Remember Not To Forget is a portrait of Ken Mickey, who sells storage space in converted caves and abandoned mines throughout Kansas. We follow Darin following his father as he makes cold calls, watches television, attends meetings at the Masonic Temple, drives through underground tunnels, and drinks his scotch on the rocks. Mickey’s pictures deftly depict the feelings an adult has toward his parents; an unfamiliarity with the familiar, and the vying feelings of attraction and rejection toward where one comes from. The title – taken from a Ziggy bulletin board – implies both the ambivalence and urgency of what family means once one leaves the fold. As much a memoir of Mickey’s family life as a portrait of a salesman, Stuff I Gotta Remember Not To Forget is a document of the suburban midwest, in turns honest, ridiculous and tender.
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About the Artist
Darin Mickey is a photographer, musician, and a teacher at Cooper Union and the International Center of Photography in New York City.
darinmickey.com
(source: https://www.icp.org/users/darinmickey)
About the Publisher
J&L Books is a non-profit Atlanta / New York based publisher of artists’ books, founded in 2000 by Jason Fulford and Leanne Shapton. J&L produces two to five new books each year by or about contemporary artists.
jandlbooks.org
