POINT OF DEPARTURE describes an imaginary journey, primarily to the British Isles, But really to wherever it might suggest. This pop-up book was inspired by the cancellation of a real trip, and also by the irresistibly quotable text and figurative illustrations found in Posing for the Camera, by Harriet Shepard and Lenore Meyer, published by Hastings House in 1960, and distributed by Milady Publishing Corp. (I kid you not!)
Mixed media with Cibachrome prints, C-prints, and gelatin silver prints. 11.25 x 14 x 2 inches closed.
Text for The Museum page:
"No photograph of a girl is like the real thing. She just cannot be pinned down on paper as she is. However, once her image has been transferred to a two-dimensional surface . . . you are free to consider it in terms of flat lines, angles, and shapes."
(Caption:) "The figure has been sliced to two dimensions . . . height and width."