アメリカ人フォトグラファー、ロン・ジュード（Ron Jude）の作品集。本書は写真的経験主義の気まぐれさと、ドキュメンタリーとフィクションの間のグレーゾーンを探っている作品であり、作者が描き続けているその魅力を拡げ、増幅させた一作である。シークエンスで描かれた物語の中で、暴力と美という対照的な瞬間に句読点を打ち、アメリカ西部アイダホ州の人里離れた地域で、毛皮を狩る罠猟師が罠の糸を丹念にチェックしながら歩む、放浪のような旅を追う。風景、建築物、侵食しつつあるリゾート・コミュニティ、毛皮を得るためにイタチの一種であるマツテンを捕獲する孤独で秘密めいた罠の作業など、さまざまな写真が交錯する中で、本作は道徳的な批評がもたらす、文化的で澱む、恣意的な性質を浮き彫りにする。幼少期を過ごした中央アイダホにまつわる前二作と呼応するように謎と憂愁の底流を持つ本書は、写真が描く物語を通して自己と場所の難解さを多面的な3部構成で考察し、その中でも主軸となる作品としてある。『ALPINE STAR』（2006年）は架空の社会学的アーカイブとして機能し、『EMMETT』（2010）が記憶と自伝の泥沼を探っていた作品であったのに対し、本書は伝統的なフォトエッセイが生み出す手品のような構成によって主題を作り出している。

Ron Jude's Lick Creek Line, extends and amplifies his ongoing fascination with the vagaries of photographic empiricism, and the gray area between documentation and fiction. In a sequential narrative punctuated by contrasting moments of violence and beauty, Jude follows the rambling journey of a fur trapper, methodically checking his trap line in a remote area of Idaho in the Western United States. Through converging pictures of landscapes, architecture, an encroaching resort community, and the solitary, secretive process of trapping pine marten for their pelts, Lick Creek Line underscores the murky and culturally arbitrary nature of moral critique. With an undercurrent of mystery and melancholy that echoes Jude's previous two books about his childhood home of Central Idaho, Lick Creek Line serves as the lynchpin in a multi-faceted, three-part look at the incomprehensibility of self and place through photographic narrative. While Alpine Star functioned as a fictitious sociological archive, and Emmett explored the muddy waters of memory and autobiography, Lick Creek Line finds its tenor through the sleight-of-hand structure of a traditional photo essay.

※本書はデッドストック書籍のため、経年劣化による多少の変色やダメージがございます。あらかじめご了承ください。

Ron Jude was born in Los Angeles in 1965, grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and currently lives and works in Upstate New York. His photographs have been exhibited at venues such as Gallery Luisotti (Santa Monica), the Photographers' Gallery (London), the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Proekt_Fabrika (Moscow) and Roth/Horowitz Gallery (New York), among others. His work is in numerous collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman House, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta. Jude is the co-founder of A-Jump Books and the author of Alpine Star, Postcards, Other Nature and Emmett. He is represented by Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica.

※Please note that there is slight visible damage and discoloration due to age.