Forgotten Memories, a book by New York gallery owner Laurence G. Miller, explores the power of images to awaken memories, to take us back to relationships and journeys likely to be otherwise forgotten. Culled from several thousand negatives and slides taken during Miller’s first five years into photography, the pictures are sequenced more by their visual relationship to each other, rather than a strict chronological order. The resulting sense of randomness more accurately reflects how we actually recall old friends, romances, tragedies, and moments of pure joy. The World Trade Center is juxtaposed with spilled lumber by a highway in Wyoming; the Mormon Tabernacle is the neighbor to a larger than life head rising from a rural Wisconsin field. The ambiguity of memory is heightened by a mixture of positive and negative images intertwined through black and white and color. The author hopes the viewer will be stimulated to recall his or her own memories previously lost to the past.
Laurence G. Miller, Forgotten Memories
Published by The Bandits Roost Press
$200
http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/publications/laurence-g-miller
FORGOTTEN MEMORIES
available from
LAURENCE MILLER GALLERY
20 West 57th Street
NYC 10019
212-397-3930
Gallery hours
Tuesday – Friday 11 – 5:30
through July 21
