Verlagstext:
Phil & Me is a personal document of a daughter’s use of photography to try to control her relationship with her father and the disease that has crippled him, as well as an attempt to focus public understanding upon the essential humanity, the worth and contribution, of all victims of schizophrenia.
In the book Amanda explores the world of her father, Philip Tetrault – a poet who has lived with schizophrenia since he attended McGill University at the age of 21. Philip was a poet suffused with promise and was hailed by Leonard Cohen as Canada’s best-kept secret in 1989…before he slipped into yet another schizophrenic nightmare.
The book juxtaposes Philip’s poetry with black and white images of him taken during the sporadic meetings with Amanda. The photographs encompass a period of six years and the poetry eight years. Photo-booth pictures that span the past twenty-seven years form the thread that binds the surreal visual and poetic narrative. Phil & Me evolved into a collaboration between father and daughter after Amanda asked Philip to try to write again. Since then he has given her scraps of paper and napkins full of poetry at every meeting.
Buchinfo:
Amanda Tetrault:
Phil and Me
Great Britain 2004, Trolley Books
ISBN 1-904563-04-X, fotoillustriertes Hardcover
160 Seiten, zahlreiche Schwarzweissabbildungen, 28,5 cm x 21,5 cm
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