{"product_id":"isnt-x-beautiful-by-odette-elix-england","title":"ISN'T X BEAUTIFUL by Odette Elix England","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"p1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIsn’t X Beautiful\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.odetteengland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eOdette Elix England\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe Ice Plant \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e110mm x 160mm\u003cbr\u003epaperback\u003cbr\u003e10 photographs\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9798985733068\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/collectordaily.com\/odette-elix-england-isnt-x-beautiful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviewed by Sara J. Winston in Collector Daily\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/collectordaily.com\/odette-elix-england-isnt-x-beautiful\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWriter and artist Odette Elix England (born 1975) first crossed paths with photography—and, crucially, the letter X—as a child on her family’s 200-acre dairy farm in Southern Australia, watching her sharecropping father make SX-70 Polaroids of cattle in the springtime. In \u003ci\u003eIsn’t X Beautiful!\u003c\/i\u003e, an autobiographical reckoning with family memory, the fate of that plot of land and the history of photography are tangled and bound at every turn with the ubiquitous letter X: shadowy character, placeholder for nothing and everything, age-old stand-in for the indefinable. Teeming with free-associative factoids, humor and philosophical tangents, and written with the obsessive idiosyncrasy of Tim Carpenter’s \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Photograph Is to Learn How to Die\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, England’s ambling 10-chapter tale is an extended meditation on the blind spots of personal narrative and the functions (and limitations) of photography in our personal and creative lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ice Plant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50820194762809,"sku":"3-0016","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0742\/9878\/5849\/files\/IsntXBeautifulOdetteEnglandIMG_8787.jpg?v=1792180755","url":"https:\/\/www.realmbooks.co\/products\/isnt-x-beautiful-by-odette-elix-england","provider":"Realm Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}