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by Laura Cameron
Visual memoirs that bring family history to life
Stories told in
words, images and objects
Before she found the shoeboxes full of her father’s letters, Laura Cameron had already spent years developing a distinctive form she calls the “visual memoir” — books that weave personal narrative with photographs, ephemera and the objects that anchor memory.
An Abecedarium of Ornaments
Thirty years of family Christmases, recalled through the ornaments that marked each one. An abecedarium is simply an alphabetical arrangement of something. In this case, it’s Laura’s family’s 300+ Christmas tree decorations: NYC apples, British baubles, so many cats, and on through the alphabet to a gold-embroidered York Minster and a veritable zoo of animals.
It’s a lighthearted, seasonal choice for book clubs or to spark a multi-generational project that captures and catalogues your own ‘family tree’ while the memories are still fresh.
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40 Ways of Looking at Manhattan
Now available in paperback — order directForty essays and 40 black-and-white photographs by Timothy Sagosz — one for each of the 40 ways a city reveals itself to someone who has lived there long enough to stop seeing it as a tourist. Equal parts memoir, urban portrait and love letter to a city that resists easy description.
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from the books
Both 40 Ways of Looking at Manhattan and An Abecedarium of Ornaments have inspired collections of gifts and keepsakes on Zazzle — mugs, cards, cushions, ornaments and more, featuring imagery from the books.
Manhattan in My Home
Home for the Holidays
New to Laura’s work?
Your Loving Son, Ronie is her most recent and most expansive book — a good place to begin. 424 letters, five appendices, and one young soldier’s voice ringing out across 80 years.