
Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body
- Publisher
- MACK
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 978-1-913620-98-1
- Specifications
- Paperback bound with book screws
22.6 x 27.9 cm
252 pages
Shortlisted, Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2024
Shortlisted, Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award 2024
The first book by the artist, film-maker and writer RaMell Ross brings together his large-format pictures, sculptures, conceptual works and writing on the American South. "I may pay rent to a friend for my place in Greensboro, but the South's my landlord; and I'm trapped in its stomach trying to get to its brain." Made in Hale County, Alabama, the work folds photography into a dictionary of terms, gestures and histories that describe Black life in the region and the difficulty of picturing it.