Forget Me Not Photography And Remembrance

Forget Me Not explores the curious and centuries-old practice of strengthening the emotional appeal of photographs by embellishing themwith text, paint, frames, embroidery, fabric, string, hair, flowers, bullets, cigar wrappers, butterfly wings, and moreto create strange and often beautiful hybrid objects. Available now in paperback, this spellbinding book features color photographs of eighty such objects, extraordinary works of artpart memento, part obsessive assemblagecreated by ordinary people from the mid-19th to mid-20th century.Batchen, Geoffrey is the author of 'Forget Me Not Photography And Remembrance', published 2006 under ISBN 9781568986197 and ISBN 156898619X.