Elisabeth Tonnard: In This Dark Wood

Elisabeth Tonnard's In This Dark Wood is a study of urban alienation in America. In a haunting, modern-gothic style, it pairs images of people walking alone in nighttime city streets with 90 different English translations, collected by Tonnard, of the famous first lines of Dante's Inferno: "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / ch? la diritta via era smarrita." ("In the middle of the journey of our life / I found myself in a dark wood / for the straight way was lost"). The images were selected from the Joseph Selle collection at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, which contains over a million negatives from a company of street photographers who worked in San Francisco from the 1940s to the 70s. This edition is a reprint of a work originally self-published in 2008.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0989531104
• ISBN13: 9780989531108
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: J & L Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"