49 Syllables on Life - Softcover

Ang, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0473559072 ISBN 13: 9780473559076

Publisher: Ang Book Co Ltd., 2021

Synopsis

A meditation 49 poems long on life that combines creative flights within a haiku-like discipline.

Every poem comprises just 49 syllables, with seven syllables on each of seven lines. This formal rigour provides a skeleton on which a filigree of feelings, thoughts and discursive world-play are wrapped. The collection uses many unusual rhetorical devices in order to accommodate the formal strictures that makes it a challenging read.

This is the first of three volumes, with another completed. The other title is a meditation on love: 49 Syllables on Love.

The texts are accompanied by Tom Ang's beautiful, melancholic still-lifes that reflect the co-creativity of chaos in the photographic process.

About this title

About the Author

Tom Ang was awarded the Hamdan International Photography Award for Content Creator in 2019. He has written over 40 books on photography including 'Digital Photographer's Handbook' that been translated into over twenty languages and multiple award-winning titles such as 'Digital Photography Masterclass' and 'Photography - the definitive visual history'. He has served on juries such as Wildlife Photographer of the Year, World Photography Award, HIPA, Czech Press Photo. He has presented TV series on photography for BBC4 and his series China News Asia won an award at the New York TV Awards. He has worked as a magazine editor, picture editor, technical journalist, has exhibited internationally and was a senior lecturer in photography for over twelve years. He won the Thomas Cook award for Best Illustrated Travel Book for his photography of the Marco Polo Expedition which pioneered the modern Silk Road crossing from Europe to China.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ang Book Co Ltd.
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0473559072
• ISBN 13: 9780473559076
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 62