Robert Stivers Photographs Author:A. D. Coleman Robert Stivers has explored the nexus of desire and memory in photographs that are hauntingly erotic. The images published here also possess a mysterious, melancholy quality, and often turn on rapture and loss, eroticism and death. For Stivers, the image is most often about the human figure in space, modeled by light, often reduced to the simp... more »lest forms. Embracing the abstract potential of the photograph, the artist mines the subconscious in a performative act of seeing and recording. This, the artist's first book, offers a contemplative visual journey that viewers will have difficulty forgetting. The photographs are accompanied by a forceful and illuminating essay by A.D. Coleman, one of the most respected critics writing about photographic art work today.« less