Love songs : photography and intimacy / text by Sara Raza ; foreword by Simon Baker, David Little ; contributions by Frédérique Dolivet, Pascal Höel, Laurie Hurwitz, Clothilde Morette.
"The original edition of this book was published in French by Atelier EXB in 2022, on the occasion of the exhibition Love Songs: Photographies de l'intime , organized by Simon Baker at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris , March 30- August 21, 2022."-- Colophon "The New York presentation of Love Songs was organized by Sara Raza at the International Center of Photography, June 2- September 11, 2023."-- Colophon Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Director's Foreward / David E. Little -- Love Songs: A New Objectivity / Simon Baker -- Love Songs: Progressively Nostalgic / Sara Raza -- René Groebli -- Nan Goldin -- Nobuyoshi Araki -- Karla Hiraldo Voleau -- Hideka Tonomura -- Collier Schorr -- Emmet Gowin -- Sheree Hovsepian -- Sally Mann -- Lin Zhipeng, alias n° 223 -- Hervé Guibert -- Motoyuki Daifu -- RongRong & iniri -- Leigh Ledare -- Clifford Prince King -- Texts -- List of Works.
Summary:
Love Songs brings together series dating from 1952 to 2022 by established and emerging contemporary photographers that explore love, desire and intimacy in all their complex and contradictory ways. Among the major series reproduced here are Nan Goldin's seminal 1986 photobook The Ballad of Sexual Dependency; Nobuyoshi Araki's Sentimental Journey (1969) and Winter Journey (1989-90), which present the beginning and end of the relationship with his wife Yoko, from their honeymoon to her death; RongRong & inri's tender and poetical Polaroid series Personal Letters (2000); and Leigh Ledare's Double Bind (2010), a complex account of a love triangle between himself, his ex-wife and her new husband. These and the other series in Love Songs together make a portrait of love in all its risk, complexity, sensuality and tenderness.
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