Gary Briechle – the celebrated American photographer identified partly for turning into a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015, however principally for his decades-long pictures obsession with Maine – is about to proceed his love affair with the twenty third state in a forthcoming monograph.
I Want To See A Lighthouse is the newest fruits in what Briechle has described as three a long time “roving around midcoast Maine in an SUV loaded with glass plates, chemicals, old view cameras”. The e book neatly picks up the place Maine, his second monograph on the state, left off.
Unlike Maine, which featured highly saturated and color-rich photographs, I Want To See A Lighthouse returns to the eerie black-and-white collodion photographic process with which the artist made a name for himself in the eponymous monograph, Gary Briechle.
However, in the same vein as Gary Briechle and Maine, the latest monograph hones in on what could be seen as the dark underbelly of the US state hiding in the familiar and everyday, despite its picturesque coastlines and rugged wilderness.
With images predominantly taken in and around the city of Rockland, where Briechle calls home, the latest monograph is a more intimate, albeit still horror-show-esque exploration.
Focusing on the unnerving, frame after frame Briechle depicts ghostly subjects that are neither “present nor absent”, with the paranormal aesthetic exacerbated by the collodion chemical process.
I Want To See A Lighthouse is set for publication in September by Charcoal Press, with the 224-page monograph being priced at $85 / £65 (Australian pricing to be confirmed). Visit Charcoal Press Book Club for extra data, the place you can too buy copies of Briechle’s earlier books.
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