Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro
The still-nascent field of Forensic Literature takes the useful mis-quotation of Walter Benjamin (‘every photograph is a crime scene’) and looks at a range of objects very carefully, looking at the marks upon them which show how they came to be and how they may have ended, at their erasures, lacks and scars, what is missing from them, and considers how they can reveal unexpected connections which shape our world. Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro is a vital addition to it.
C. D. Rose reviews Melissa McCarthy‘s Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro.