shutters / dead ends / lens / pens: A Literary Dialogue between William Zuback and David Press

By Erico Ortiz

As evidenced by their 2-year online project, shutters/dead ends/lens/pens, both visual artist/photographer William Zuback and writer David P. Press have consistently delivered the high level artistic goods necessary to claim such a genuine success. Now all that was left was to bring it from the digital into the physical world through an exhibition at Inspiration Studios during February of 2015.Beginning with a prose poem call by Press and followed by a photographic image response by Zuback, the caller and respondent alternate over 14 chapters. So the pattern is write/shoot, shoot/write, and repeat.The responses are not literal interpretations but rather born of intense focus on detail and intangible atmosphere.The project was really a contrapuntal exercise--which is just a fancy and much less wordy way saying a place where opposing or independent ideas meet--which provided room for spontaneity and nonlinear story-telling.Just as the collaboration followed its own method, so too did the exhibition. Three receptions were scheduled and included a multi-sensory performance of the prose/poetry as the images were projected on a screen.This book contains the fourteen chapters (call and response) that were exhibited at Inspiration Studios.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512372382
• ISBN13: 9781512372380
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.1" x 8.5"