Background information
"The work of the recently deceased Bay-area photographer, Henry WESSEL, is renowned for its fragmentary and compelling nature, each image urging imaginative leaps towards the fatalism and moral ambiguity of noir film and fiction. Every Henry WESSEL photograph is a gateway to a wild array of extraordinary storylines. This project, 'A Dark Thread', takes this semblance of an idea further by commissioning over a dozen renowned noir writers to produce a short story in response to one or more of Henry WESSEL’s black and white photographs. This first version of the project brings together French translations of stories by Art Taylor, Ivy Pochoda, and Alexander MacLeod, together with the photographs that inspired them.
Content
Straddling the space between literary publishing and photo book, this slim volume, 'A Dark Thread. Short stories by Art Taylor, Ivy Pochoda, and Alexander MacLeod inspired by the photographs of Henry Wessel' offers a new and original means of understanding Henry WESSEL’s photography and accompanies a retrospective of his work at the Maison de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris (June 2019)." (© Mack books, 2019)
Book reviews
"Strangely suggestive" (© The Financial Times) - "Quand le glaçant touche au sublime" / "When the chilling touches the sublime." (© L'Express)
About the American photographer, Henry WESSEL
Photo books by and with contribution of Henry WESSEL
- Format
- Embossed and silkscreened HC, 16 x 24 cm., 64 pp., text language: French