Dining Alone

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In the Company of Solitude

By Nancy Scherl

Summary

Dining Alone: In the Company of Solitude is a fine art photography book by Nancy Scherl that explores the experience of being alone in public. Through images of solitary diners in restaurant interiors, Scherl beautifully captures the subtle nuances and complexities of solitude. This evocative visual journey spans three decades, culminating during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Ideal for readers interested in photography, contemporary art, and reflections on solitude and public life.

Description

Dining Alone: In the Company of Solitude is a fine art photography book that highlights the experience of being alone in public. Scherl uses peopled restaurant interiors as a metaphor to explore the complexities of the subject of solitude. The subtle nuances of her lone diners visually define their experience.

This long-term project, spanning three decades, culminated during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781954119147

Publisher: Daylight Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 June 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Daylight Books

Illustration: Color Photographs

Contributors:

Foreword by Laura Pressley

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 128

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Arts & Culture Nancy Scherl Non-Fiction

About the Author

Nancy Scherl is a fine art photographer based in New York City. She describes her work as cinematic. Stylistically, Nancy emulates cinema verite, often posing her subjects, offering subtle direction, and asking them to "act out" how they feel while they are posed in a specific setting. The setting is frequently enhanced with cinematic lighting to create a specific ambience. Nancy's more candid portraits also emulate cinema verite, but here she both blurs the boundaries between pictorial and street genres and draws from Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moment." Her camerawork may include a predetermined background and sometimes controlled lighting, but she will capture her subjects more spontaneously, once they appear within her camera frame.

Nancy also creates fictional narratives, which she refers to as Staged Fantasies. As a provocateur, she lures viewers into her scientifically impossible visual worlds, designed to intrigue viewers into considering anew their formerly trusted points of view and aspects of the human condition.

Laura Pressleyis an experienced Cultural Producer powering multi-faceted events servinglocal, national, and international communities. As a Certified Executive Directorof CENTER in Santa Fe, she directs one of the most effective outcome-drivenprograms in the world for photography and lens-based media, CENTER's annual Review Santa Fe Photo Symposium.

In addition to her role at CENTER, Laura is currently a Fellow in the PolicyEvaluation Lab, at the University of New Mexico.