PHOTOGRAPHS: BURDOCK
The exhibition will consist of 25 recent photographs of burdock leaves. The burdock is a rank weed that grows along roadsides
and derelict buildings. MALCOLM has extracted them from this, their natural environment, and transplanted them to small glass vases in her attic studio where she photographs them contrasted against a stark white wall. She selects leaves that have been
victims of decay, insects and blight.
In 2008 Yale University Press published Burdock, a book of earlier leaf photographs by MALCOLM.
MALCOLM is a staff writer at the New Yorker and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is author of
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (2008), In the Freud Archives
(2002), Reading Chekhov (2002), Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography (1997), The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (1995), The Journalist and the Murderer (1990).
MALCOLM also makes collages which she exhibits at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York.
Burdock
Photograph, 19 x 15 inches (sheet)
Executed in 2006
Burdock
Photograph, 19 x 15 inches (sheet)
Executed in 2008
Burdock
Photograph, 19 x 15 inches (sheet)
Executed in 2008
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