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April 26, 2007 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

New Book, ‘Seeing Beyond Sight,’ Features Photographs by Blind Teenagers

Author Challenges Definitions of Perception and Sight

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chronicle Books has published “Seeing Beyond Sight,” a new book by visual artist and social entrepreneur Tony Deifell, which features photographs taken by blind and visually impaired teenagers.

With its ambitious, seemingly paradoxical premise, “Seeing Beyond Sight” (www.seeingbeyondsight.org) challenges our definitions of art, vision and perception with a collection of nearly 140 remarkable photographs.

As a photographer, Deifell had always feared losing his sight. “If I were blind, could I still make photographs?” he often wondered. He decided to find out.

Deifell taught his blind students to take pictures as an innovative, multi-sensory means of self-expression. Their intuitive, dreamlike images are often surprising and beautiful in their composition, light and chiaroscuro intensity. Complementing the photographs are the students’ own words explaining what the process and images mean to them.

A rare book of visual art, “Seeing Beyond Sight” provides inspiration, not only to the visually impaired community, but also to anyone who has ever considered what it means to see and perceive the world.

For order information, call 800.722.6657, or go to www.chroniclebooks.com.

About the Author

Tony Deifell is a San Francisco–based visual artist and social entrepreneur. He has spent over a decade creating youth-generated media projects, including From the Hip, Youth Voice Radio, and ISM, which was recognized by the White House as a national model of diversity education. He serves as chief strategist for KaBOOM!, advises film and television projects, and continues to develop participatory media-making productions, including www.wdydwyd.com. Tony was an artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, taught documentary studies at Duke University, and was a national leadership fellow with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. He taught photography for five years at Governor Morehead School for the Blind.

About Chronicle Books

One of the most admired and respected publishing companies in the United States, Chronicle Books was founded in 1967 and, over the years, has developed a reputation for award-winning, innovative books and quality merchandise. The company continues to challenge conventional publishing wisdom, setting trends in both subject matter and format, maintaining a list that includes titles in fine art, cookbooks, children’s books, music and popular culture. To visit Chronicle Books online, go to www.chroniclebooks.com.

Chronicle Books (for Seeing Beyond Sight)
Patricia Quill, 415-537-4256
patti_quill@chroniclebooks.com

www.seeingbeyondsight.org

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