Oculus by Ken Schles

My review of Ken Schles' new book Oculus (Nooderlicht, 2011) is now online at Photoeye. The book is quite unusual and beautiful.

Blurring the boundaries between a philosophical essay and photobook, Ken Schles’ new
book Oculus is a beautiful meditation on the role of images, memory and perception
in our lives. In many ways, Schles’ work builds upon the questions and concerns of
his last two books. If The Geometry of Innocence (Hatje Cantz, 2001) can be seen as a
deconstruction of photojournalism and documentary practice, and The New History
of Photography (White Press, 2008) a meditation on influence and our relationship to
history and images, Oculus pushes these questions to a deeper level and explores how we
use images to understand and construct meaning from the world around us.

Read the rest here.