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Strange Ritual

A collage of photographs and texts that bounces back and forth between religious places and objects around the worls, the mise-en-scène of sales and display and pieces that attempt to pull those two worlds together. An attempt to recognize what sorts of rituals, superstitious habits and spiritual auras can be found in the contemporary world. That's a lot to attempt, and the book doesn't quite do all that — but it's aiming in that direction.

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Strange Ritual (front cover)

Strange Ritual, excerpts

BOOK:

• Chronicle Books, 1995
• Designed by Gary Koepke
• Creative & Production Coördinator: Sarah Caplan
• Production Consultant: Robin Weiss
• ISBN: 0-8118-1046-1

ABOUT:

• "David Byrne Talking Back", Rain Taxi, Winter 1999/2000
• "String Theory", Wired, October 1999
• "Talking Pictures", San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 8, 1997
• "Artist Exhibits Prints from Book", El Paso Herald-Post, October 30, 1996
• "Still Making Sense", American Way, February 15, 1996 [interview]
• "David Byrne Photo Book: Visual Chaos", Denver Post, October 16, 1995
• "Byrne Marks", Eye, October 12, 1995 [interview]
• "Some Bookish Questions for David Byrne", Creative Camera, June 1994 [interview]

LINKS:

• www.talking-heads.net/strangeritual.html

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