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Updated:May 2002 "Susan Lipper's photographic series 'Trip' is a display of signifying artifacts. highly vernacular in tone, if not in its cadence or operative structure, 'Trip' is a collaborative textual amalgam of words and images that circulates in the form of both an installation and a book....As predominantly an itinerant artist who works solely with photographic images. Lipper's commitment is more to the literacy and meaning of photography than to the depiction of place. Yet place, and particularly travel, has shaped a great deal of her appreciation of a photographic language with its means and efficacy, possibilities and limitations to communicate both within and across visual and verbal cultures....The play of found and staged objects and images Lipper scripts in Trip presents a photography that straddles documentary traditions and conceptual practices. Her sequence of images then constitute not only a critique of recent photographic history, but also the construction of identities and meaning for both viewers and makers."" —Camera Austria "Like Grapevine, Trip takes a journey through a personal landscape that is part fiction, part real documentary, startling readers with unexpected glimpses of mysterious places, objects, and photographs devoid of people.... Trip casts the viewer into a vernacular and personal landscape of oblique perspectives and familiar fragments which draw stirrings of loneliness, laughter and longing." —British Journal of Photography "The writer Frederick Barthelme captions Lipper's disparate images of a strange and private America, helping to form an imaginative whole that speaks to the intertwining of commercial culture, neglect, and memory." —DoubleTake "It's a deadpan trip through the byways and backwaters of America, each photographic observation painted with an elliptical bit of text..." —Art on Paper "Lipper, a skilled photographer, joins noteworthy fiction writer Barthelme in a collaboration that pairs text with pictures.... Lipper's photos are humorous, arcane, and evocative of places and experiences that are both mundane and exceptional. Barthelme's words transmit fragments of human experiences and memories in a style his readers will find familiar." —Library Journal "Trip makes for an odd viewing; its images demand to be read. They seem dislocated from modern times, harking back, yet out of sync—with their images o contemporary cars and TVs—with the fiction we presume defines the past." —Black Book "Leafing through Trip is like watching a Jim Jarmusch film. The photographs and text are a series of moments captured and laud out entirely open to interpretation. The book is at once voyeuristic and personal even while containing no photographs of actual people." —Blue Adventures "The photos in Trip are so evocative, so enigmatic yet eloquent in their elusive way..." —New York Press "...laconic, wittily deadpan travelogue..." —The Village Voice Literary Supplement "...Lipper's experiments with documentary authenticity flipped convention beyond credibility." —i-D "A paragraph of fictional text accompanies each photograph, almost in the form of a road-trip journal.... It is this link between the reader and the text that ultimately reveals the displacement that so often accompanies travel, where the self is cast into the other in magnificent juxtaposition." —Afterimage "It is at once iconographic, revealing a fascination for the signage that directs our eyes and lives, ironic, and often slyly humorous in its take on the conditions of American society." —Photo Metro |
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