{"product_id":"odette-elix-england-isnt-x-beautiful","title":"Odette Elix England: Isn't X Beautiful!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIsn't X Beautiful!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTo Photograph Is to Learn How to Die\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003eThe Ice Plant\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 208 pages\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9798985733068\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ice Plant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48144762077419,"sku":"9798985733068","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/1061\/files\/513FZSVSvdL._SL1000.jpg?v=1777063677","url":"https:\/\/store.hammer.ucla.edu\/products\/odette-elix-england-isnt-x-beautiful","provider":"Hammer Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}