https://tblibrary.com/tags/photography/ Recent content in Photography on TB Library Hugo en-us Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://tblibrary.com/books/ghost-image---herv%C3%A9-guibert/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://tblibrary.com/books/ghost-image---herv%C3%A9-guibert/ <h2 id="review">Review</h2> <p>Another Guibert. I expected this one to speak a little more to me, as it is the intersection of photography and writing. Little parts of it, especially the brief entry “Contact Sheet” (see note for p75 below) did, and others were worth reading, but maybe had quieter voices. The premise of using words as a method of constituting photographs (the ghost images) in the reader’s mind is interesting; it is what all fiction writing at the least is, of a sort. Stephen King calls writing telepathy. Sometimes the writer strings words together that are outlandish and have nothing to do with anything else, purely because the stringing of them evokes a certain emotion or sensory experience. Other times it is visual description to the nth degree, forcing the image the writer beholds into the reader’s mind (willingly or not). Guibert falls somewhere in the middle. Some of the photographs and paintings referenced speak more to me in Guibert’s words than they do on a computer screen, and some of his words I badly wish I could see printed as a photo. At some point soon I will mindfully go through his photobook <em>The Only Face</em> and I’m curious if I will discover any of these spoken photos in those pages.</p>