History & Criticism - General & Miscellaneous Photography, Photo Essays, European Travel Photography - General & Miscellaneous, Eastern Europe - Travel, Portrait Photography - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
In this, Plachy's most complex and personal book to date, we are asked to reconsider ideas of self-portraiture and going home again. In 1956, in the wake of the Hungarian Revolution, Plachy and her parents escaped into Austria carrying only a small valise. She returned to Hungary eight years later, this time with a camera in hand. Through the gently subversive images gathered here, her life is revealed via clues, fragments of words,and pictures as if by someone looking into a mirror and seeing her life pass before her eyes-not linearly like a film, but rather in layers.
Synopsis
Printed in an oversize format (9.75x11.5"), this volume presents full-page and some two-page plates of the photos taken by Plachy on multiple visits to eastern Europe since the 1960s. The photos, most of them b&w, are accompanied by captions, some descriptive, many personal. Landscape and people are the main subjects, filmed in Hungary, Romania, Russia, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the former Yugoslavia. Not indexed. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Details
Published
August 1, 2004
Publisher
Aperture Foundation
Pages
208
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781931788434