First edition, first impression of Lament I & II by Linda Foard Roberts. Medium format boxed set of two hardback volumes housed in a board slipcase. New condition. Signed by the artist on the title page.

About

Through contemporary photographs, personal stories, essays, and quotes, Lament connects the tangibility of history and the geography of memory to a greater understanding of the palpable presence of our shared past in everyday life. 

For this project, Roberts employed Civil War-era equipment—an 8x10-inch view camera with a Darlot brass barrel lens—and visited sites across the American South where devastating events in social history have taken place. This use of historical equipment invokes the temporal merging she seeks to capture in her work—the overlap of the evidence of our past with the present. In an ongoing effort to seek truth, the artist bears witness to the silent stories encoded in our surroundings. Her work examines life, death, human rights, and excavations of narratives invisibly embedded in our lives. Roberts has seen how such endeavours can create opportunities for change, compassion, action, and justice.