Fot this breif, I had produce a pamphlet in two days to response to this extract from Reading and the Body, (Thomas McLaughlin, 2015):
Specific moments of reading are difficult to capture. Reading is evanescent, temporal. The moment of reading is embedded in a specific and mutable material context and gone in an instant. It is the mortal, changeable body that reads, and it often leaves no trace of its actions.
It's hard for people to realise what they're reading throughout the day, so I've used this set of first-person photographs to document what I read across different mediums and contents in a day. This booklet documents what I read on 17 November 2022, including novels, book backs, road signs and text messages.
Specific moments of reading are difficult to capture. Reading is evanescent, temporal. The moment of reading is embedded in a specific and mutable material context and gone in an instant. It is the mortal, changeable body that reads, and it often leaves no trace of its actions.
It's hard for people to realise what they're reading throughout the day, so I've used this set of first-person photographs to document what I read across different mediums and contents in a day. This booklet documents what I read on 17 November 2022, including novels, book backs, road signs and text messages.
