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from ”Domesticated“ by Amy Stein

Two books that I am buying right now. One is the photo-book of the great series “Domesticated” by Amy Stein. If you are interested, hurry up, a limited edition book [600 copies printed] is for sale at photo-eye.

Amy Stein crafts photographic allegories set simultaneously in a number of different liminal spaces. Her sure and realistic color works manifest the place where the human-built meets the wild, but in addition they show us where the factual descriptive image meets fiction. Despite their apparent realism, her images are posed and constructed, sometimes using models and taxidermy props, sometimes using the bodies of dead or living animals to re-create, record and perform actual events that occurred in the small Pennsylvania town of Matamoras, which Stein has claimed as surely as Faulkner invented and limned Yoknapatawpha County. What at first appears to be a series of photojournalistic decisive moments is revealed, at a second look, to be a powerfully imagined vision that establishes its strength through its very artificiality. 

from ”America” by Zoe Strauss

The second book is “America” by Zoe Strauss whose photography I find truly fascinating.

Poised to be the most important photography book of 2008, Zoe Strauss’ AMERICA shines a light on the often unseen people and places in the United States today. Following in the famed footsteps of Robert Frank: The Americans, but 50 years later, Zoe Strauss traveled across the country as a Gund fellow documenting what she calls ‘the beauty and struggle of everyday life.’ In highly formal compositions, she uses photography to create epic narratives that pursue ‘a hopeful quality in adverse conditions and how people manage to live their lives.’ Strauss’ photographs depict the bittersweet beauty of everyday life and lay bare the human comedy. 

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