"This book would not exist if David hadn't come so close to death. In
December 2016 David was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of
lymphoma. The oncologist gave him a thirty percent chance of survival. I
didn't expect him to live". ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀During the time her
husband and photographer David Pace went through chemotherapy and
radiation, Diane Jonte-Pace turned to a long-postponed household
project: to arrange and sort unlabeled and unsorted old photographs,
stored in shoeboxes all around the house. Prints and slides, dating from
1970, when the couple first met, individually and collectively, captured
a sense of time past and time passing, while each individual photograph
froze a moment in their lives. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Technically and
stylistically, this book incorporates most of the forms of photography
available over the last five decades, starting in a period when cameras
and film were becoming more accessible and less expensive. From the 35mm
single-lens reflex camera, Brownie Hawkeye, Polaroid, and single-use
throw-away cameras to professional cameras like the Pentax 6x7, Sinar
4x5, Deardorff 8x10, and, eventually, full frame digital Canons. More
recent photos are snapshots made on iPhone. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Where
the Time Goes" provides a window into the past. It is the story of
youth, aging, and change over time. It's a story about family
photography over five decades, of a post-war generation coming of age,
and turning the camera upon itself. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀While the photos
in this book tell a story of aging and change in a life together, they
also tell a story of how family photos have been made, stored, and
viewed over the last 50 years. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The story told by
these photographs belongs not only to Diane and David. It provides a
window onto the past for an entire generation. "Where the Time Goes"
recounts how the post-war generation turned the camera upon itself, and
narrates a story of youth, aging, and change through illness, hope, and
recovery.
