Phil And Me - Hardcover

Amanda Tetrault

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190456304X ISBN 13: 9781904563044

Publisher: Trolley Books, 2004

Synopsis

Phil & Me is a daughter's use of photography to try to understand her relationship with her father and the schizophrenia that has crippled him. Amanda's father, Philip Tetrault, is a poet who has lived with schizophrenia since he attended McGill University, in Montreal, at the age of 21. As a young man, Philip was suffused with promise, hailed by Leonard Cohen in 1986 as one of the best young poets in Canada--before he slipped into yet another schizophrenic void. These photographs cover six years of sporadic meetings between Amanda and her father. Throughout, Philip had been giving her scraps of paper and napkins with verses and lines scrawled on them: some are published here. Photo booth pictures that span the past 27 years form a visual narrative thread. Philip is now a part of the streets and the shadows of Montreal. The reality of his days--moving through the caf s and parks of the city, his habitual Mickey of vodka in hand, and his acquaintances of street kids, squirrels, crows and seagulls--haunt these photographs and his poems alike.

About this title

About the Author:

Amanda Tetrault is a photographer based out of Montreal, Canada, and Bangalore, India. After graduating from Dawson College in Montreal she worked at two of the most significant photography workshops in the world The Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine and The Toscana Photographic Workshops, Tuscany, Italy. For two years she was assistant to the famed National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. During this period she worked on the production of his books Portraits (Phaidon Press) and South South East (Phaidon Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: Trolley Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 190456304X
• ISBN 13: 9781904563044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192