Elisabeth Tonnard

The introduction starts as follows:
'The images in this book are selected from the extraordinary Joseph Selle collection at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. Selle owned "Fox Movie Flash", a San Francisco street vendor photographic firm that existed from the 1930's until the 1970's. The archive at the Visual Studies Workshop contains some one million negatives. They exist as 35 mm half frames on 100-foot rolls of film (that were loaded in modified DeVry movie cameras). So far twelve of these rolls have been scanned. One of them appeared to be shot completely at nighttime.
While I was looking through the images, it struck me that at nighttime a higher percentage of people were walking alone than in the daytime.'
In footnote 1 reference is made to her book 'Two of Us' (2007) with the following remark: 'At twice the size of the present book, "Two of Us" presents the figure of the double as encountered in the Selle collection.'
In the back of the book we read the following information: 'Voices. The text quotes ninety different English translations of the first tercet of Dante's "Inferno". The following is a list of the translators, in order of their appearance in the book.'
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