What can instructional photographs teach us about ways of seeing? This is the question asked by artist Carmen Winant in the introduction to her book Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now (2021). Drawing from books, catalogues and pamphlets on bereavement, meditation, sex and childcare, Winant examines these ubiquitous and often strange images with references to Leo Tolstoy, Sylvia Plath and Julio Cortázar.
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