Leaf: Record 1974/1975



3/2010
LEAF, JUNE.

Record 1974/1975. Göttingen 2010. 4to. 188 S. durchgehend mit farb. Zeichn & handschriftl. Text, davon eine Falttafel, Ppbd.

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This book is a facsimile of June Leafs sketchbook from the winter of 1974 and 1975, spent in Mabou Coal Mines, Nova Scotia. She has lived here since 1969 with her husband, Swiss-American photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank. The book is above all a working document of Leafs thoughts. Drawing is her primary medium, an approach explained in her first written entry of 26 November, 1974: "I dont usually like to write because I am more satisfied by an action." Her sketches are exploratory, inquisitive, incomplete: for example she refines a motif as simple as a knot over days and weeks, drawing it in different ways until it becomes no more than a detail in a larger, more complex picture. Leaf is not afraid to express the difficulty of the creative process, her frustration as well as her progress: "Ive come to a dead stop. Should make a sculpture - dont want to! Should play the fiddle - dont want to! Should take a walk - too cold. Wheres the inspiration?" Amidst such uncertainty Leafs husband remains a constant source of inspiration: representations of Frank are scattered throughout the book, from its opening pages to the last, unpretentious entry of 24 April, 1975: "Blue book ends."

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Foto-Mono  Fotobände (Allgemein)  Frank,Robert  Geschenkband / Fotobände  Künstler Zeitgenossen  Künstlerbücher  Leaf, June