My new book A Light Year of Lead is now available for pre-order on my web-store. I’m very excited for this book to be out in the world—it’s been a long time coming! The book is nearly 200 pages, has almost 90 photographs, and has several paper stocks, gatefolds, and other special bits that make it feel like the hybrid photo book/artist’s book that I was truly after. The book was designed by the amazing Sara Fowler and I was fortunate to have the talented transmedia poet Amy Catanzano contribute some original typographic poetry to the project. The book description is below, but head on over to the web-store now to reserve your copy (I’m only printing 200)! Or better yet, join my Fan Club and pick it up at an even cheaper price.
A Light Year of Lead is an investigation into how contemporary science pictures the invisible & unknown. Eric William Carroll has photographed throughout the United States in former mines where scientists have installed experiments attempting to detect elusive elementary particles and theoretical dark matter. Rather than demystify the experiments, Carroll amplifies their strangeness through seven distinct chapters. In collaboration with Carroll’s on-site photographs and studio experimentations, Amy Catanzano presents a series of typographical poems that span the scientific and mythopoetic to the surreal and absurd. An expanded laboratory experiment between art, science and literature, the collaboration between Carroll and Catanzano blurs established boundaries between the known & unknown, as well as image & text. ISBN: 978–0–578–78579–0.
