Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Ellen Wallenstein, A Game of Chess, Women's Studio Workshop Print Center, Rosendale, NY, 1986


A work by this photographer and book artist based in New York who recently retired from teaching at Pratt Institute. I'm having a hard time getting the gist of this work that's been made with a plastic camera. A photo of a piece of Roman statuary on its front cover leads into a series of moody and blurry images that seem to be related to this piece of sculpture. Otherwise I'm at a loss to get the message, unless it's connected to some literary reference I'm unaware of (maybe the "Game of Chess" section in T.S. Eliot's "Waste Land", 1922?).

10 double-sided pages, individually 6" x 6", and unfolded 5ft.




reverse side

back cover

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