Publisher Note
Ryan Thompson considers the implications of a trove of handwritten apologies, from the archives of the Haleakalā and Hawai’i Volcanoes National Parks. Written to accompany chunks of volcanic rock and other objects that tourists have pilfered from the Islands and subsequently returned (because of bad luck or bad conscience), the notes and letters express not only a need for forgiveness but also an awareness of the writers’ relationship to the Hawaiian landscape, and perhaps also to Earth itself — a taking-and-returning phenomenon that is its own form of absolution and self-help.
AH AH weaves together Thompson’s own black-and-white travelogue photographs, vibrantly colored ‘portraits’ of the returned specimens, and facsimiles of selected letters into an endearing reflection on humanity’s troubling (but hopeful) entanglement with geology, colonialism, and tourism in the Anthropocene.
AH AH
— Conscience Letter and Photographs form the Haleakala & Hawai’I Volcanoes National Parks
by Ryan Thompson
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| Release Place | Los Angeles, United States of America |
| Edition | 1st edition |
| Release Date | 2024 |
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ISBN-13:
979-8-9857330-4-4
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| Subform | Photobook |
| Topics | Haleakalā, Hawai’I, Volcanoes |
| Methods | Photography |
| Language | English, English |
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| Format | Softcover |
| Dimensions | 16.8 × 23.0 cm |
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| Pages | 128 |
