I Am Not This Body investigates primary, personal experience, and relies upon the viewer's imagination and memoirs. Barbara Ess is renowned for her uniquely accomplished use of the pinhole camera, and her effort to "photograph what cannot be photographed." Ess 's is a conscious quest to explore what she calls "ambiguous perceptual boundaries: between people, between the self and the not self, between in here and out there." In her view, "reality...includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts desires emotions -[which] a normal camera tends to omit". The Strange and affecting images she coaxes from this primitive camera manage to evoke the sublime and the impossible, the textures of d desire and loss.
- ISBN10 0893819360
- ISBN13 9780893819361
- Publish Date 15 June 2005
- Publish Status Temporarily Withdrawn
- Out of Print 19 June 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Aperture
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 96
- Language English