Byrnes, Terence, 1948-

Closer to home : the author and the author portrait / Terence Byrnes.

Montréal : Véhicule Press, c2008.

141 p. : ports. ; 26 cm.

"In this unusual marriage of text and image, Terence Byrnes challenges, teases, and occasionally cooperates with the traditional author portrait, which he says is "a collection of ancient gestures that signal status, sincerity, and authoritybutis quite uninterested in beautiful - or even interesting - photographs."" "Byrnes used his own background as a writer and photographer to create the portraits in Closer to Home: The Author and the Author Portrait. Over a period of ten years, he met with his subjects and photographed them during the course of intense and sometimes intimate discussions of writing and art. He was always aware of the disconcerting gap between the solitary act of writing and a marketing apparatus so fixed on visual images that one on-line literary agent states boldly, "The author photo is the single most important issue in your future professional writing career."" "Reading Closer to Home, we glance from Byrnes's brief and revealing stories about each writer to the accompanying photograph and we arrive at a new way of looking at both writers and photogtaphs. For a moment, we feel we have met the author personally, and that meeting has shown us something about the oddly elusive yet highly recognizable nature of identity itself."--BOOK JACKET.

9781550652482 (pbk.) :
1550652486
9781550652505 (bound) :
1550652508

Byrnes, Terence, 1948-
Portrait photography Québec (Province) Montréal.
Authors, Canadian (English) Québec (Province) Montréal Portraits.
Authors, Canadian (English) Québec (Province) Montréal Anecdotes.
Écrivains canadiens-anglais Québec (Province) Montréal Portraits.
Écrivains canadiens-anglais Québec (Province) Montréal Anecdotes.
Portraits (Photographie) Québec (Province) Montréal.
Portrait photography.
Québec Montréal.

Location: Library main 327883
Call No.: 327883
Copy: 1
Status: Available