{"product_id":"tim-carpenter-christmas-day-bucks-pond","title":"Tim Carpenter: Christmas Day, Bucks Pond","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eChristmas Day, Bucks Pond Road\u003c\/em\u003e, his second book with The Ice Plant, Brooklyn-based photographer Tim Carpenter (born 1968) revisits the Central Illinois topography of his first monograph, \u003cem\u003eLocal Objects\u003c\/em\u003e, with a sequence of 56 black-and-white medium-format photographs, all made on a single winter morning. In \u003cem\u003eLocal Objects\u003c\/em\u003e he meandered this semi-rural Midwestern landscape through changing seasons in an abstract sequence, but here Carpenter follows a straightforward path, literally taking the viewer on a two-hour walk from point A to point B. Nothing much happens along this brief narrative arc—there are fallow fields, standing water, dormant trees, the occasional tire track on worn pavement—yet Carpenter explores the stillness of this outdoor space with a palpable, almost erotic anticipation, revealing intimate subtleties as the journey unfolds. Made with an intensity of attention and a lightness of touch, the photographs in \u003cem\u003eChristmas Day, Bucks Pond Road\u003c\/em\u003e are less about the confines of this specific time and place than about a poetic strategy for narrowing the distance between human desire and the factual content of the everyday world.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IPS\/DAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555659649081,"sku":"210000003045","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/cdbpr-front-cover-pp-1500-px-e1600956736685.jpg?v=1790279722","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/tim-carpenter-christmas-day-bucks-pond","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}