Dice

Résumé du livre

A classic small celebration and meditation on dice through theages; both brilliant and beautiful.

"Jay\'s writing is exactly what one would expect from theextremely erudite, witty and decent author of Learned Pigs &Fireproof Women and Jay\'s Journal of Anomalies. There is anexplanation of the etymology of "craps," and there are varioustales of armless dicers, ingenious hustlers, and Scandinavian kingsof the Middle Ages who diced for islands. Dice turn out to be richsubjects for Purcell\'s photography. She presents them as, in away, monumental ruins on a Stonehenge-type of scale relative to thebook. Their forms are enriched by their disintegration and arebathed in light that their varying translucence seems to containfor a moment before releasing it to the lens . . . The book itselfis, like a die, a modest object, small for a book of photographyand, with a short text, casually organized." -- Crispin Sartwell,Los Angeles Times 21 color photographs.