ABSTRACT
Gerard Mace's books have an inner coherence of theme and style that can be traced back directly to the author's idiosyncratic vision. This chapter starts with a consideration of what 'autobiographical' means for Mace. It discusses his work iLa memoire aime chasser dans le noirn in which his views of photography are explicitly articulated for the first time, in detail. The work is made of three sections. The first section contains brief thoughts about photography, the second about dreams, and the third contains prose poems which bring the two together. The chapter discusses the five main books of photographs, which are La photographie sans appareil, Un monde qui ressemble au monde, Mirages et solitudes, Ethiopie, le livre et l'ombrelle, and La Couleur est un trompe-l'ceil. The first two intersperse photographs and text, and the latter three, arranged in a more classical fashion with photographs and texts set out separately from each other.
