MOURNING by Lisa Kereszi

12 x 18.5 inches horizontal; 112 photographs; 32 pages. Board back with stab and thread binding. Essay by Marvin Heiferman.  ISBN: 979-8-9889751-0-6. $100 plus shipping When her father died suddenly, less than a year after her grandmother passed away, Lisa Kereszi found herself managing grief from these dual and significant losses amid contentious family strife. When her father’s newly-erected headstone was toppled and had to be re-mounted, Kereszi asked family members nearby to rig an off-the-shelf trail camera within view so that through that device and its auto-generated photographs, she could “visit” her father’s grave daily, though she was hundreds of miles away. Kereszi amassed thousands of images over a seven-month period that culminated in the trail camera’s disappearance (it was later discovered tucked behind a headstone). With the forced isolation created by the pandemic, her life as a human, a mother, and a professor radically changed. Seeking order and control when the wor