The Topography of Tears

by Ann Lauterbach (Foreword), Ann Lauterbach (Foreword), William H. Frey II PhD (Foreword), Rose-Lynn Fisher (Photographer)

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2017
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Looking at [Fisher's] photographs feels like staring out a plane window at the passing landscape below. --Studio 360
A moving depiction of the micro and macro aspects of our emotional lives, and a beautiful means of integrating the often separate realms of science and art. --Refinery29
Does a tear shed while chopping onions look different from a tear of happiness? In this powerful collection of images, an award-winning photographer trains her optical microscope and camera on her own tears and those of men, women, and children, released in moments of grief, pain, gratitude, and joy, and captured upon glass slides. These duotone photographs reveal the beauty of recurring patterns in nature and present evocative, crystalline imagery for contemplation. Underscored by poetic captions, they translate the mysterious act of crying into an atlas mapping the structure and magnificence of our interior lives.
Rose-Lynn Fisher is an artist and author of the International Photography Award-winning studies Bee and The Topography of Tears. Her photographs are exhibited in galleries, festivals, and museums across the world and have been featured by the Dr. Oz Show, NPR, Smithsonian, Harper's, New Yorker, Time, Wired, Reader's Digest, Discover, Brain Pickings, and elsewhere. She received her BFA from Otis Art Institute and lives in Los Angeles.

Synopsis

Looking at [Fisher's] photographs feels like staring out a plane window at the passing landscape below. --Studio 360

A moving depiction of the micro and macro aspects of our emotional lives, and a beautiful means of integrating the often separate realms of science and art. --Refinery29

Does a tear shed while chopping onions look different from a tear of happiness? In this powerful collection of images, an award-winning photographer trains her optical microscope and camera on her own tears and those of men, women, and children, released in moments of grief, pain, gratitude, and joy, and captured upon glass slides. These duotone photographs reveal the beauty of recurring patterns in nature and present evocative, crystalline imagery for contemplation. Underscored by poetic captions, they translate the mysterious act of crying into an atlas mapping the structure and magnificence of our interior lives.

Rose-Lynn Fisher is an artist and author of the International Photography Award-winning studies Bee and The Topography of Tears. Her photographs are exhibited in galleries, festivals, and museums across the world and have been featured by the Dr. Oz Show, NPR, Smithsonian, Harper's, New Yorker, Time, Wired, Reader's Digest, Discover, Brain Pickings, and elsewhere. She received her BFA from Otis Art Institute and lives in Los Angeles.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: 18 May 2017
ISBN 10: 1942658281
ISBN 13: 9781942658283
Book Overview: Co-op available Finished copies will be printed early for media and bookseller outreach. Additional eGalley distribution to media, booksellers, and librarians through EdelweissNational print, public radio, and online media outreach. We will also seek special coverage in lifestyle, art, photography, science, and psychology magazines.Project will likely be featured on NPR's Morning EditionSimultaneous eBook publication and promotionPostcards availableEarly reviewer promotions through Goodreads and LibraryThingPromotion through the author's website (www.rose-lynnfisher.com) and BLP's social media networks and website (www.blpress.org) Forewords by William H. Frey II, PhD and Ann Lauterbach Marketing and publicity efforts supported by Molly Mikolowski of A Literary Light

Media Reviews

Advance Praise for The Topography of Tears

Looking at [Fisher's] photographs feels like staring out a plane window at the passing landscape below. --Studio 360

A moving depiction of the micro and macro aspects of our emotional lives, and a beautiful means of integrating the often separate realms of science and art. --Refinery29

An extraordinary take on an otherwise mundane human response. --Medical Daily

Beautiful. --Good Men Project

Reveals the existence of a multitude of territories inside of us. --Palais de Tokyo curator Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel

Stunning photographs transport us to a previously unseen world. . . . [They] also invoke within us a new set of emotions as individual as each of its viewers. What a pleasure. --William H. Frey II, PhD, founder and senior research director of HealthPartners Neurosciences and coauthor of Crying: The Mystery of Tears (from the foreword)

Advance Praise for The Topography of Tears

Looking at [Fisher's] photographs feels like staring out a plane window at the passing landscape below. --Studio 360

A moving depiction of the micro and macro aspects of our emotional lives, and a beautiful means of integrating the often separate realms of science and art. --Refinery29

An extraordinary take on an otherwise mundane human response. --Medical Daily

Beautiful. --Good Men Project

Reveals the existence of a multitude of territories inside of us. --Palais de Tokyo curator Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel

Author Bio

Rose-Lynn Fisher is an artist and author of the International Photography Award-winning studies Bee and The Topography of Tears. Her photographs are exhibited in galleries, festivals, and museums across the world, including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Museum of Science Boston, Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, and Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica. They have also been featured by the Dr. Oz Show, NPR, Smithsonian, Harper's, New Yorker, Time, Wired, Reader's Digest, Discover, Brain Pickings, and elsewhere. She received her BFA from Otis Art Institute and lives in Los Angeles.