A Poor Sort of Memory Melba arellano trip re-appropriates the documentary tradition

trip re-appropriates the documentary tradition to create a new American narrative that casts us adrift in a world of vernacular objects – signs and symbols that read at so many levels

The book is signed to the rear boards on a tipped in plate

brings a new layer to the work

And how does this inform our identity

which appear in the limited edition book

A Poor Sort of Memory Melba arellano trip re-appropriates the documentary traditionFirst edition of A Poor Sort of Memory by Tracy L Chandler (2024) First impression Large format hardback in new condition Signed by Tracy L Chandler to copyright page 108 Pages Hardcover Full Colour Offset 9. 5 x 11. 5 About To make the photographs in her debut monograph, A Poor Sort of Memory, Tracy L Chandler went back to her hometown in the California desert and not without ambivalence. As I revisited old hideouts in concrete washes and private