Alfred Tom

In his latest photobook, Gary Briechle compiles intimate snapshots of the peculiar characters who have entered his life since moving to Maine some 20 years ago. Maine is Gary Briechle’s second book with Twin Palms Publishers. His first, Gary Briechle: Photographs (2012), consists of luminous black and white photographs on black paper, each picture made from a collodion-coated wet plate and shot on a rag-tag batterie of old, new, hot-rodded and homemade view cameras.

E’n tró py 1. a measure of randomness and disorder within a system. 2. A numerical measure of uncertainty. In my first-grade class, we were taught to write with our right hand, even though I was more comfortable with my left. We had big sheets of paper and were asked to make lines using our whole arm, then circles. I made hundreds, then thousands of circles. I love the symbolism a circle provides and how it represents the idea of something mathematically perfect, but not fully understood.