Everything, As Perfect As It Seems

by Christopher e Manning  
2020  

300 pages

Everything, As Perfect As It Seems by Christopher E. Manning. First edition (2020). First impression. Medium format hardback in new condition. 

About Everything, As Perfect As It Seems

The repetitive and immediate nature of the instant photograph is a ritual, to save a memory, a period of life, just a habitual moment logged into the Dewey decimal system of the collective unconscious.

I began to see these instants as fragments of tangible memory, a portrait of what has, will, and always form us. But often looking back on a Polaroid, that moment was just the surface. There were feelings, expressions and images that needed to be revealed or reflected upon with additional commentary. Consequently the process led to excavating the exteriors of time, covering a vulnerability/moment needing to be forgotten or amending memory with footnotes.