{"id":88037,"date":"2015-07-22T12:06:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T16:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=88037"},"modified":"2015-09-09T10:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T14:18:59","slug":"big-bent-ears-part-7-anatomy-of-a-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/big-bent-ears-part-7-anatomy-of-a-sequence\/","title":{"rendered":"Big, Bent Ears, Chapter 7: Anatomy of a Sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tape markings on the stage of the Tennessee Theatre indicating equipment placement for tUnE-yArDs\u2019s set at the Big Ears Music Festival in 2015. Photo: Kate Joyce<\/p><\/div>\n

What do crushed tulips, baseball, and Jonny Greenwood have in common?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the kind of question that would only be asked in \u201cBig, Bent Ears,\u201d Sam Stephenson and Ivan Weiss\u2019s \u201cSerial in Documentary Uncertainty<\/a>.\u201d The series\u2019s seventh chapter examines the process and work of photographer Kate Joyce (the answer to the riddle above), a member of their documentary team and an erstwhile child detective. Regular readers will remember Joyce\u2019s work from our \u201cBull City Summer<\/a>\u201d series, where her typologies of ball markings on the outfield wall, bubblegum-wrapper lawn darts, and abandoned cups of melted drinks offered an accounting of the game\u2019s periphery. For \u201cBig, Bent Ears,\u201d Joyce takes a similarly sideways view of the action, and her need to look beyond a subject (sometimes literally) in order to see it more clearly defined is on view in her filming of an interview with Greenwood earlier this year:<\/p>\n

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I was looking for a way to bring the outside in, to invite the street into the room. The way we framed that shot was to have Greenwood sit nearly in front of a window and focus the camera lens through the window on the exterior. I had spent so much time walking around Knoxville, photographing scenes around town. I wanted to see if there was a way to combine the street with the interview. I remember when the interview was over being disappointed that more things didn\u2019t happen outside the window.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the latest chapter here<\/a>, and catch up on the rest of the series:<\/p>\n