Lisa M. Robinson: Snowbound: About the Book

For five winters, the young American photographer Lisa M. Robinson
made photographs in the snow. Snowbound depicts landscapes in which
everyday objects - alienated and sunken in snow- civilize the natural
surroundings. Traces of human existence set accents in the white
landscape, delimiting it and often popping up in an amusing or
incongruous way. A lonely hammock, a trampoline or a swimming pool
are echoes of both summers past and of personal memories. But
Lisa M. Robinson is not interested in showing the obvious; instead,
the photographs make use of the many aggregate states of water -
ice, snow, fog, water - as metaphors for life and transience.

Photographs by Lisa M. Robinson
Introduction by Mark Strand
Foreword by Celina Lunsford
Published by KEHRER VERLAG
Heidelberg, Germany, 2007
ISBN 978-3-939583-50-9
112 pages, 50 color reproductions
$60.00 US

In these photographs, something remains of what existed before the snow
fell, signs that white is not a permanent condition. There is even something
anticipatory about it, as if it signaled a new beginning. It is like the
whiteness of a sheet of paper, waiting to be written upon.
- Mark Strand

Snowbound delivers what one hopes to see (but is harder to find these days)
in an emerging photographer- knowledge of her medium, a rich and varied inner life,
fearlessness in vision, and an in-depth study of her subject so that something
can be revealed.
- Carol McCusker
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego

There are so many things that come to mind when I look at the images in Snowbound;
the importance of the trace, the mystery of layers, and, perhaps the strongest impression-
the contrast of a kind of static, silent beauty with an underlying sense of forceful tension.
- Patrick Ansellem
Brooklyn Museum of Art