TO PHOTOGRAPH IS TO LEARN HOW TO DIE: AN ESSAY WITH DIGRESSIONS “the brand of oat milk

“the brand of oat milk in their flat whites was the same

Truth is one

Thus begins this intriguing collection of quotations from American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk (1917–1982)

for managing the breach that separates the self from all that is not the self

and institutionalized

TO PHOTOGRAPH IS TO LEARN HOW TO DIE: AN ESSAY WITH DIGRESSIONS “the brand of oat milkEssay. The Ice Plant, 2024. Paperback, 248 pages. 4. 5"x6. 7" From the press: To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die is a book length essay about the essential usefulness of the practice of making photographs. Drawing on the writings of Wallace Stevens and dozens of other poets, artists, musicians and thinkers, American photographer Tim Carpenter argues passionately in one main essay and a series of lively digressions that photography is unique among