Books by Carol Mavor

Postwar French works that register disturbing truths about loss and regret, and violence and history, through aesthetic refinement anchor this exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and comprehend the incomprehensible.

Drawing attention to the interplay between writing and vision, this book is stuffed with more than 200 images. It is a meditation on the threads that unite mothers and sons and the ways that certain writers and photographers take up those threads and create art that captures an irretrievable past.

Lewis Carroll's photographs of young girls and Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs of Madonnas are two of the subjects in this book, which explores pleasures of all those involved in the creation of the images as well as the images themselves.