She

@ Sarfati, Lise

978-1936611003

New

Publisher's presentation:

"A family album preserves only carefully selected photographs. Out of an entire life, it stores only handpicked moments, privileging special occasions, happy ones usually, and consigning the rest to oblivion: happy faces, relaxed moments, places of leisure rather than work. It tends to underline a group’s social links and affective relations, to highlight an identity, a communal spirit, a shared life and destiny. The portrait of the couple or group, with all its attendant conventions, is one of its inescapable figures. The family album tries to register the evolution of a particular human community, to write its story and scan the passage of time with each succeeding page. None of this figures in She: instead of a chronology, time is stopped, it appears to stammer and bite its own tail. There is no group photo or desire to stage a collective destiny, but only isolated models and individuals who do not seem to communicate amongst themselves, or only barely; no happy moments or picturesque places, only indifferent moments in ordinary places; no strong gesture, none of the conventional poses, and no complicity with the photographer. The models pose, but reservedly, more often than not without looking into the camera. And even when we do see their faces, we don’t really seem to see them. They are here, but they are always also there, elsewhere. When we close the book and think a bit about it, we cannot but see She as the anti-family album par excellence.

 -- Quentin Bajac (Chief Curator of Photography, MoMA)"

120 pages - Hardcover w/ DJ

Twin Palms, 2012

Format : 35.8 x 28 cm

New - The book is new but shows some very minor traces of handling

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$85.82

Sarfati, Lise

Lise Sarfati , born in Oran on April 12, 1958, is a French photographer. She grew up in Nice and studied at the Sorbonne, where she graduated with a master's degree in Russian in 1979. Her thesis was about Russian photography in the 1920s. Photo: Royalty free portrait, Eys in Progress
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