{"id":23852,"date":"2012-06-23T15:50:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T14:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=23852"},"modified":"2012-06-23T16:28:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T15:28:38","slug":"the-moire-effect-lytle-shaw-cabinet-books-bookhorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=23852","title":{"rendered":"The Moir\u00e9 Effect. Lytle Shaw. Cabinet Books \/ Bookhorse."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Moir\u00e9 Effect. Lytle Shaw. Cabinet Books \/ Bookhorse. <\/em><\/p>\n

Ernst Moir\u00e9 was a mysterious Swiss photographer whose career has been obscured by silence, documentary voids, and misinformation. So much of his life is shrouded in speculation and half-truths that he sometimes seems more like a phantasm than the flesh-and-blood figure who will forever be remembered as the inadvertent inventor of the blur that bears his name. In 2002, Cabinet magazine dispatched literary scholar and detective Lytle Shaw to Zurich to investigate the reclusive figure\u2018s life and work. Shaw published his initial findings in Cabinet issue 7, but the puzzle of Moir\u00e9 continued to vex him, and it is only now, a decade later, that the full story of his continuing investigation can finally be told. The Moir\u00e9 Effect tracks the artist from his humble Alpine beginnings as the son of a postal clerk to his fateful founding of a Zurich photography studio in the 1890s and his subsequent role in the lives of a number of curious figures including the legendary Dutch architect Mer Aws\u00fcmbildungs, the theosophist philosopher Rudolph Steiner, and several members of the old and fearsomely secretive Chadwick family. Hailed by Harry Mathews as a \u201ecomplex\u201c and \u201eexcitingly\u201c written book bound to \u201edelight\u201c and \u201eentertain,\u201c Shaw\u2018s thriller takes readers on a journey through the elegant salons of Swiss palazzi and the dusty bowels of ancient archives, finally ascending to a mountainous conclusion as hair-raising as it is bedevilingly oblique.<\/p>\n

Lytle Shaw is a New York based writer whose books include Cable Factory 20, The Lobe, Principles of the Emeryville Shellmound, and Frank O\u2018Hara: The Poetics of Coterie. His art writing has appeared in Cabinet, Artforum, and Parkett and in catalogues for Dia Art Foundation, the Drawing Center and the Reina Sof\u00eda. With Jimbo Blachly, Shaw oversees the Chadwick family archive, which has been exhibited widely and is represented by Winkleman Gallery in New York.<\/p>\n

128 Pages, 11 x 18 cm
\nPaperback
\nFirst Edition, 2012
\nEdited by Lex Tr\u00fcb, Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi
\nISBN 978-3-9523391-3-8<\/p>\n

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The Moir\u00e9 Effect. Lytle Shaw. Cabinet Books \/ Bookhorse. Ernst Moir\u00e9 was a mysterious Swiss photographer whose career has been obscured by silence, documentary voids, and misinformation. So much of his life is shrouded in speculation and half-truths that he sometimes seems more like a phantasm than the flesh-and-blood figure who will forever be remembered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,252],"tags":[2797,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23872,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23852\/revisions\/23872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}