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“However elegantly or gleefully his books distort story-telling conventions, they nevertheless exhibit great affection for the transfigurative power of narrative on our common means of perception. They transform banality into rich and amusing anachronism, and recall to us in oblique but insightful ways how much our sense of self or place was always some kind of invention.”

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“The title comes from Stewart Edward White’s book Rose Dawn (quoted in City of Quartz), in which the author expresses amazement that anything green could live in Los Angeles. After I moved to L.A. I experienced something like 40 straight days of cloudless blue skies, and decided that I was secretly part of some reality show, and that the sun and earth had reached an agreement in order to produce the optimum filming environment. This unnatural feeling, as well as a slight sense of déjà vu, compelled me to photograph the locations. Walking through the city I could let my memories and fantasies of films overlap with the real places. It became a bit like a gumball being rolled through the street picking up more and more gum. I shot everything at midday, so that throughout the book there’s no sense of time passing. ”

— The Sun Shone Glaringly: a conversation with Seth Lower, just published at thegreatleapsideways.com

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2012

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2010