Susan Faludi: ‘In My World, Photographs Lie’ – The New York Times

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Susan Faludi: ‘In My World, Photographs Lie’

Susan Faludi’s latest book, about her photographer father’s transition to a woman, originally had no photos. In time she realized that images are moments carved disingenuously out of continuous experience, but they can be redeemed by age.

via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/susan-faludi-in-my-world-photographs-lie/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0

in acetate envelopes and slide trays, thousands of Tri-X negatives and Ektachrome slides, along with contact sheets and prints, chronicling year by year and in meticulous order, the minutiae of Faludi family life. That is: my life, and my life with my father.