CREATESPACE The Book Of Charlie: Volume 5 (The Book Of [Your Name Here])

The Book Of Charlie is another installment in the series of photography books by American artist LG Williams. The Book Of [Your Name Here] series, originating in January 2015, is an artistic re-examination of the "miracle" of the daguerreotype photograph, in which the artist reaches back to the origins of photography. On August 19, 1839, the French Academy of Sciences announced the invention of the daguerreotype by the scene painter and physicist Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851). Word of the discovery spread swiftly, and daguerreotype photography enjoyed great popularity until the 1850s, especially in America, where the process was free from patent restrictions. While there was great demand for portraits captured by the "miracle" of photography, early daguerreotype technology had its shortcomings. The necessarily long exposure times required to capture an image, fifteen minutes on average under bright lights, led to inevitable lacunae in representing the subject. The resulting single image daguerreotypes are de facto composites of the lapsed long exposure time, but not, as was purported, scientifically captured replicas of both time and image. This publication and series present an opportunity for Williams to provide an artistic, political, and social perspective on the missing truths, images, and loss of time that occurred during the age of Daguerre. In other words, each book from this single-portrait-series consists of hundreds of continuous images taken during a fifteen-minute stretch of time, or just about as many images as the artist could take as fast as possible using his outdated FujiFilm FinePix Z70 3-MP Digital Camera. From this historical perspective, Williams' series points to the limitations of daguerreotype photography with the seemingly limitless possibilities of contemporary analogue-image capture and production. . . . . . Charlie Colin is a renowned contemporary musician best known as a founding member and bassist of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Train. He played a significant role in the band’s early success, contributing to hit albums like "Drops of Jupiter," which earned two Grammy Awards and produced several top singles including "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" and "Calling All Angels". LG Williams is a Los Angeles-based artist and recently the Endowed University Instructor at The Academy of Art University; Robert Hughes Distinguished Visual Artist-In-Residence at The Lodge in Hollywood, CA; and the Emmy Hennings Distinguished Professor at D(D).DDDD University. LG has exhibited in various national and international venues, including The Internet Pavilion of La Biennale Di Venezia, and has appeared in Artforum, The New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Japan Times, Los Angeles Times, La Stampa, Bookforum, Purple Diary, Mousse Magazine, and The Brooklyn Rail among others. PCP Press is an independent publisher of avant-garde books and insurgent authors. Founded in 1990 in San Francisco at a time when transgressive and sometimes esoteric international art books had a difficult time making their way into the wider American marketplace, over the past three decades PCP has grown into a consistent publisher of books, special editions, and rare publications from an array of the world’s most respected authors and cultural institutions — including Raymond Pettibon, Dave Hickey, Wayne Thiebaud, Bryan Reynolds, David Hawkes, Shepard Fairey, LG Williams, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, and Lucerne Kunstpanorama. # # # # #