A Storybook LifeThe disparate photographs assembled here were made over the course of twenty years. None of them were originally intended to be used in this book. By ordering and shaping them I tried to investigate the possibilities of narrative both within a single image and especially in relation to the other photographs. A Storybook Life is an attempt to discover the possibilities of meaning in the interaction of seemingly unrelated images in the hope that content

Rearick’s first monograph with Deadbeat Club

She became a farmer and a farmer’s wife

Benjamin Donaldson

These photographs were often taken between assignments

not only the place where I was raised but an active borderland between fantasy and memory

In these photos

It never occurred to him that these photographs would be part of his “work”

in ancient Japanese culture

creating a common social identity

which was completely unlike that of his home village on the coast of Italy

creating a new type of culture

focused and irrepressible