afterimage, barnes & noble review Around The World

Thursday, 24 January, 2008

Around the World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums
By BARBARA LEVINE & KIRSTEN M. JENSEN

The following is an excerpt from a review by Kristina Dunoski for Afterimage, The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, January 2008, Special Issue on Photography and the Archive. 

The authors call the found albums not only "aide memoire(s)" but also "time machines" that allow present-day observers to see what the travlers saw and experienced by turning the pages.  This physical experience-holding an album and feeling its pages- is something that is lost in digital photography and storage. read full review

The following in an excerpt from a review by Victoria C. Rowen which appeared in The Barnes & Noble Review.

While it's hard to picture from our tech-saturated perspective, there was a time when refrigerators were so newfangled that they came with a manual that was also a cookbook for use with this unheard-of device. Reading Around the World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums is much like paging through one of these guides, as it reveals many aspects of voyaging it's hard to believe ever were novel.    read full review