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      Lily Markiewicz

      The Price of Words, Places to Remember 1-26

      60 pages | Duotone | 155 x 200 mm, Soft cover | 1992 | Edition of 500 copies
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The Price of Words is an amalgamation of two archetypal forms of the book: the alphabet book from which children learn to read and the memory book. The book’s subtitle Places to Remember 1−26 links the alphabetical plan of the book to the injunction to remember, so important in Judaism and Jewish culture. The ‘places’ are pages of the book, though reference is made within them to actual places − lived in, moved from, arrived at, passed through, never named or identified.

Black and white photographs that show sand pouring into a metal bowl preface the alphabetical section of the book. These images have an ambiguous quality, caught between movement and stillness, negative and positive. The book is not a straightforward memorial observance: it addresses the need within Jewish culture not only of the importance of remembering but of the need to forget.


本書は、子供が読みを学ぶ本と、記憶の本という、2つの典型的な本の形が融合されてできている。副題の「1から26を覚える場所」はユダヤ文化で重要なアルファベットを覚えるための配列とリンクしている。金属のボールの中に砂が注がれる白黒写真は本文のアルファベットのパートの前置きになっていて、これらのイメージは静と動、ネガとポジの中間に位置するような曖昧な表現になっている。
ここでは、ユダヤの文化が覚えていることだけでなく、忘れることも大切であるということを提言している。
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