Double Game by Sophie Calle, contributor: Paul Auster
Double Game is an adventure . I learned much from Calle’s multiple approaches to art in word and image and to collaboration. I loved her hutzpah – living vicariously and sometimes sheepishly – a voyeur – through her “games.”
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
This is a entertaining and completely absorbing graphic book about word and image art. While the history of the form unfolds in memorable frames, the discussion of the ways words and images can interact and the examples McCloud gives brings real clarity to the subject.
Signs and Relics by Sylvia Plachy
What can be better than a book that brings over 150 of Plachy’s black and white photographs together than a book that weaves in memoir in short bursts of stellar writing. Through unlikely topics such as roundness, smoke and frames and masterful sequencing and editing, Plachy’s photographs are grouped and linked in surprising, satisfying ways. Both her always-interesting photographs and her writing reveal a spirited artist and one-of-a-kind human being.
Biography
Karen Davis’s photographs are featured at MASS MoCA and the Boston Drawing
Project/ Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston. Her work is in the collections of the Center
for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, the Lishui
Museum of Photography, the Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University and in
corporate and private collections. Davis, of Hudson NY, is a recipient of the 2009 Artists
Fellowship Award from the CPW and a 2011 New York Foundation of Art’s (NYFA)
MARK artist.Karen is also a teacher and gallerist. She has taught photo-based and word-image courses at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Lesley University, Radcliffe Seminars, Tufts University and Suffolk University. She and her husband, Mark Orton, are co-directors of the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY where they exhibit photography, mixed media and photobooks of emerging, midcareer and established artists.
Artist's Atheneum 