{"product_id":"9780996157049","title":"Paris Scratch: not quite poems, not quite journal entries, meta-factual snapshots of everyday Paris life","description":"I spent years wandering the haunted streets of NYC \u0026amp; Paris both bulging with ghosts \u0026amp; memory, rich in phenomenological detail, encounters \u0026amp; coincidence \u0026amp; the enticing scent of decay, where the old ignites the new. This sensory wealth tends to overpower the individual residents \u0026amp; in order to survive you eventually end up ignoring it all. One day you wake up \u0026amp; wonder why you're even living here; you must either put up or shut up; either reinvent your relation to your surroundings or get a divorce.\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp; rather than do the easy thing-taking snapshots-I decided to record what my 5 senses registered by scribbling down a \"snapshot\" per day for a year while wandering, engaging in dérives-the walking \u0026amp; writing producing countless notepads with barely legible scribbles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThus the Unloaded Camera Snapshots series began as an exercise to document the \"snapshots\" of everyday life. These eidetic, epigrammatic, not-quite prose poems, not-quite journal entries, served as meta-factual attempts to re-pollinate existence with the fecund, oft-neglected details of the everyday, la vie quotidienne. Think of it this way: Brassai \u0026amp; Doisneau meet Cartiér-Bresson in a Montmartre cafe \u0026amp;, over Pastis, decide to smash their cameras \u0026amp; triumphantly take up pens instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Luc Godard once said: \"there is just a moment when things cease to be a mere spectacle, a moment when a man is lost and when he shows that he is lost.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe companion book NY SIN PHONEY IN FACE FLAT MINOR documents New York using the same tactics, and is also available from Sensitive Skin Books (November, 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Unloaded Camera Snapshots commenced as an exercise to document the \"snapshots\" of everyday life \u0026amp; was inspired at the time by photographer-friends Foto Sifichi, Bradlay Weiss \u0026amp; Wendy *****. These eidetic, epigrammatic, not-quite prose poems, not-quite journal entries, meta-factual attempts to re-pollinate existence with the fecund, oft-neglected details of the everyday, la vie quotidienne. See it as one's 3rd eye functioning as an ultra-sensitive macro lens. Think of it this way: Brassai \u0026amp; Doisneau meet Cartiér-Bresson in a Montmartre cafe \u0026amp;, over Pastis, decide to smash their cameras \u0026amp; triumphantly take up pens instead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sensitive Skin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49778963579120,"sku":"9780996157049","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780996157049_p0.jpg?v=1780094560","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780996157049","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}