Tim W Graveson Photography

I started making images of books placed in environments for a collaborative installation called “The Last Library.” At the time several forces seemed to threaten books, not just a single book, but whole libraries and collections of books. The Internet was just taking off and the idea was to digitize books to make them available over a network or online. Libraries were tossing out their card catalogues; people feared that in the near future physical books would be completely replaced by the digital e-book.
The landscape as a photographic image can be interesting but I think it can be too easily dismissed as “just another landscape.” By interjecting the book into a landscape there is a reference to the human-made in juxtaposition to nature

Some of the books in my photographs are from an encyclopedia set too out-of-date to be useful, too recent to be an antique. These volumes would just end up in landfill. Other books are already damaged. I keep and reuse most of them many times.
You could say I’ve given them a new life as images.

I print my images on acid free paper using Epson’s Ultrachrome mineral-based inks.
Timothy Waldo Graveson
P.O. Box 315 / Inverness, CA 94937 / 415/509-04158
Email: timgaveson@gmail.com