{"product_id":"odette-elix-england-isnt-x-beautiful","title":"Odette Elix England – Isn't X Beautiful!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWriter and artist Odette Elix England (born 1975) first crossed paths with photography – and, crucially, the letter X – as a child on her family’s 200-acre dairy farm in Southern Australia, watching her sharecropping father make SX-70 Polaroids of cattle in the springtime. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIsn’t X Beautiful!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, an autobiographical reckoning with family memory, the fate of that plot of land and the history of photography are tangled and bound at every turn with the ubiquitous letter X: shadowy character, placeholder for nothing and everything, age-old stand-in for the indefinable. Teeming with free-associative factoids, humour and philosophical tangents, and written with the obsessive idiosyncrasy of Tim Carpenter’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo Photograph Is to Learn How to Die\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, England’s ambling 10-chapter tale is an extended meditation on the blind spots of personal narrative and the functions (and limitations) of photography in our personal and creative lives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ice Plant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762063786223,"sku":null,"price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/3927\/files\/IMG_4612.jpg?v=1771640913","url":"https:\/\/www.perimeterbooks.com\/products\/odette-elix-england-isnt-x-beautiful","provider":"Perimeter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}