Alan Huck (MFA '18) - MACK Pre-orders now live and EVENT Sept 26th
In Alan Huck’s image-text book, I walk toward the sun which is always going down, an unnamed narrator wanders a city in the American Southwest, where their observations and encounters become catalysts for rumination on a wide range of subjects. Shifting between photographs of the city’s peripheries and an interior monologue written in first-person, fragmentary prose, this hybrid essay draws on the ambulatory works of writers such as W.G. Sebald and Annie Dillard, both of whom are incorporated into the network of literary and cultural references interwoven throughout the book’s text. Part metafiction about the working process of a photographer and part cross-disciplinary exploration of one’s relationship to a particular place, the author utilizes the essential indeterminacy of both photography and written language to craft an exercise in attention that moves seamlessly between the two mediums.
OTA-bound paperback with flaps 144 pages,17 x 20 cm ISBN 978-1-912339-46-4 September 2019 €30 £25 $35
In addition, for the launch of his book 'I walk toward the sun which is always going down,' join us in New York for an intimate discussion between Alan Huck and Yevgeniya Traps. A radical new voice in literary and photography publishing, Alan Huck's book pushes the boundaries of the photobook, shifting between photographs of the city’s peripheries and an interior monologue. He will be in conversation with Yevgeniya Traps, a writer and educator, whose work focuses on the intersection of visual art and literature, and whose teaching at NYU asks questions integral to Huck's work. What does the visual add to the written and what does it demand in return? How do we write about the visual and visualize the written? How does storytelling differ across the text and image, and what happens to the story when the two are juxtaposed or combined?
Thursday 26 September, 7pm
Printed Matter Inc.
231 11th Avenue
New York, 10001