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This book presents Alessandra Sanguinetti's return to rural
Argentina to continue her intimate collaboration with Belinda and
Guillermina, two cousins who, as girls, were the subjects of the
first book in her ongoing series, The Adventures of Guille and
Belinda and The Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams. In this second
volume, The Illusion of An Everlasting Summer, we follow
Guillermina and Belinda from ages 14 to 24 as they negotiate the
fluid territory between adolescence and young adulthood. Still
surrounded by the animals and rural settings of their childhood,
Everlasting Summer depicts the two cousins' everyday lives as they
experience young love, pregnancy, and motherhood - all of which,
perhaps inevitably, results in an ever-increasing independence from
their families and each other. Similarly, we can sense a shift in
Sanguinetti's relationship to the cousins and the work they make:
from insular childhood collaborators to three women with lives
branching in different directions. Though the passage of time is
one of the most palpable tensions at work in these photographs, An
Everlasting Summer deepens Sanguinetti's exploration of the
timeless, universal language of female intimacy and friendship.
MACK will be publishing an ongoing series of formally similar
volumes from the body of work The Adventures of Guille and Belinda,
commencing with a reprint of the first book The Adventures of
Guille and Belinda and The Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams in
early 2021.
Long before he published "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,"
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ("Lewis Carroll" to the world) took up
photography as a hobby. Unlike most of the other amateurs in his
circle, he persevered to become a dedicated, prolific, and
remarkably gifted photographer, creating approximately 3,000 images
during his twenty-five years of photographic activity. This
handsomely designed volume makes clear the remarkable extent and
complexity of Carroll's photographic art. It publishes for the
first time the world's finest and most extensive collection of
Carroll photographs, many of which have never been reproduced
before and are unknown even to committed Carroll enthusiasts.
Roger Taylor's thorough and sophisticated discussion of Carroll
as a photographic artist and as a prominent member of Victorian
society reveals the man as never before, illuminating his
relationships with the children he photographed in light of the
idealism and social conventions of the day. This text, illustrated
with exquisite tritone plates, is followed by Edward Wakeling's
fully illustrated and thoroughly annotated catalogue of the entire
Princeton University Library collection. It features, in addition
to a trove of loose prints, four rare albums made by Carroll
himself to showcase his work to friends, family, and potential
sitters. Reproduced in album order, these images offer new insight
into how Carroll thought about his work--and how he wanted it to be
seen.
Compelling portraits of Alice Liddell and other children are
presented alongside those of eminent Victorians such as Alfred
Tennyson and William Holman Hunt, as well as evocative landscapes,
narrative tableaux, and wonderfully strange studies of anatomical
skeletons. The catalogue is followed by a chronological register of
every known Carroll photograph--a remarkable resource for anyone
studying his career as a photographer.
This sumptuous volume is the definitive work on Carroll's
photography. All who admire Carroll and his writing, as well as
everyone interested in Victorian England or the history of
photography, will find it both essential and irresistible.
From renowned photographers Ken Browar and Deborah Ory, the
husband-and-wife team behind The Art of Movement, comes this book
for fans of dance and fashion alike; it features today s greatest
dancers wearing couture creations from today s most celebrated
designers, and takes the relationship between fashion and dance as
its subject. Leaping, spinning, lifting, and gliding, the
astonishing dancers featured in these pages use the movement of
their bodies to reflect and magnify the craft and artistry inherent
in the clothes they re wearing. Whether a hot-off-the-runway
couture gown from Oscar de la Renta or a Halston-designed costume
pulled from the archives of the Martha Graham Dance Company, the
dancers in these pages including Tiler Peck, Misty Copeland, Angelo
Greco, Devon Teuscher, Charlotte Landreau, Daniil Simkin, and
Calvin Royal III elevate the clothes they are wearing. Taking the
viewer on a transcendent journey from the quotidian world of pointe
shoes and barre class to a world of impossible beauty and glamour.
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