What the Living Carry

Ashcom, Morgan

Code: 3522

ISBN: 9781910164938

Publisher: Mack Books

New Hard cover First Edition, Signed by the photographer

Price: £40

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Morgan Ashcom What the Living Carry Signed by the Photographer What the Living Carry unveils a small town named Hoy?s Fork, situated in the American South. Drawing on memories of the rural setting in which he grew up, Virginian photographer Morgan Ashcom brings together photographs, type-written letters and a hand-drawn map to build a fictional narrative of a foreboding place. Leading us on a trail through the town and its surrounding forest, Ashcom presents scenes that point to a mysterious history, and people whose familial connections remain unknown: a forlorn old man, with champagne to hand, reclines on the corroding steps of a once grand home; a bloodied mattress is carried through an overgrown field; a solitary child burrows into a meadow, while on the streets, a man dutifully cleans a white picket fence ? a vision that belies a local mural of a distant, ancient land. Interspersing this fragmented narrative is a set of texts ? four letters responding to ?Morgan?s? request for DNA analysis ? written by ?Eugene? of the ?Center for Epigenetics and Wellness of the Spirit?. If What the Living Carry provides a set of clues to unravel the enigma behind this strange world, it is through a visual record that is simultaneously autobiographical and imagined, and inclined to elude. Linen hardcover with tipped-in image 21.6 cm x 29.2 cm, 144 pages 84 colour plates 37 black & white plates Publication date: September 2017 ISBN 978-1-910164-93-8-S