100 Signed photographer’s copies available here
(Regular copies available from the Publisher in Italy)
Jason Bentsman is a writer of literature and fine art photographer. He’s been taking photos for many years now, both analog and digital, and started sharing them with the world fairly recently. Some have appeared in literary and art magazines and a few galleries to date. In his photos generally he tries to capture that which cannot be captured, which is to say, the transcendent. The selections in this debut collection are some of his more probing, searching, and multifaceted—reaching for the depths. The first half are black and white, and second half color. All deal with form, light, shadow, and time to unearth certain deeper themes and aspects of our form-bound existence. They can at once be seen as symbolic, and immediate.
Limited Edition, Collector’s Item
100 Copies: Numbered & Signed
w/ personal Inscription
Published by 89Books Italy
50 Pages
8.27 x 11 inches
Arena Fedrigoni Natural Paper
9 x 11 Board Sleeve
$35
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A profound work of poetic nonfiction about the interconnectedness and depths of consumerism, plastic pollution, climate change, plague, runaway ego, and other threats facing the planet. Described as “Visionary… something out of its own time,” “An urgent read for every person living on the planet,” “A 21st century HOWL” (A. Shoumatoff, New Yorker & Vanity Fair), “Very interesting and idiosyncratic,” and “A poetic companion piece to Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction.’”
Mardi Gras in the Moment, the first novel I wrote—in a land before time—is currently available for sale as an EBook on Google Play. I personally feel that the book is a proverbial ‘apprentice work’ best suited for younger audiences—though some septuagenarians have told me they enjoyed it, so what do I know. Judge for yourself. A description can be found below.
Sometimes physical copies of the first (and sole printing) of the book can be found for reasonable prices on Amazon as well.
In a musty dorm room at an elite college in upstate New York sleeps Conrad Greyman. He sleeps all the time, in fact. Conrad is a casualty of postmodern malaise and bears hidden wounds he doesn’t understand. ‘Mardi Gras’ tells the fantastic story of Conrad’s spontaneous trip to the great Southern festival. He finds there, amid the infernal chaos of neon lights and Bourbon, a chance for unlikely redemption. Conrad’s journey through the mad streets of New Orleans becomes a modern hero-quest, and New Orleans an epic landscape. Conrad’s adventure is populated by holy fools who come to his aid, menacing frat boys, magical beads, and unadulterated American decadence. In the balance hangs the fate of an inward-looking soul trying to make his way through a fractured, carnivalistic world. Conrad’s adventure comes to reveal many of the shallownesses and inequities of American social life at the beginning of the twenty-first century, as the chronicles of the Beats did for their generation, and ultimately offers a hard-won but simple answer for transcending them. You can read an Excerpt from the book Here.