The Hotel Chief Editor: Wang Huan

Chief Editor: Wang Huan

the photographs are touched with the spirit of the gothic as well as the unmistakable tenderness familiar from Sanguinetti’s series The Adventures of Guille and Belinda

exploring the making of these prints which shaped many later works

These books demonstrate a sophisticated relationship to narrative and sequence and offer a new understanding of the scope of Woodman’s engagement with the book form

The result is a narrative collage in which the boundary between the documentary and the staged becomes increasingly ambiguous

The Hotel Chief Editor: Wang HuanThe hotel in this book is both real and metaphorical, an actual establishment run by Tenzing Dakpas parents in Sikkim, Northeast India, and a prism through which he revisits his family history and place within it. Dakpas photos reveal the physical spaces of the hotel, its guest rooms, dining room, the familys cat on a flight of stairs; as well as signs of daily working life there: sheets hanging out to dry, clipping plants in the garden, his parents