For decades, photographer Kate Sterlin has made an artistic practice of examining the boundaries between individual, family, and community. In her first book, Still Life: Photographs & Love Stories, she uses intimacy in all its forms to tell a story of life, death, family, and race in America. Pairing lyrical photography with poetic writings, Still Life is a dreamlike narrative examining kinship and romance, friendships and tragedies, the complexities of Black identity, and personal and generational loss across a lifetime. It is a testament to one artist’s commitment to creation and a profound blend of the personal and the universal.
“To infuse the everyday with a sense of historical significance, poetry, and dignity is to affirm that the private lives we lead deserve inquiry, not only from others but from ourselves. To express the ineffable, to immortalize it in ink, is to prompt us to explore the things we’ve never dared to admit. Being interested in witnessing, summoning, and drawing close to those moments, as Kate has been for a lifetime, means being acutely aware that the fugitive present, in all its texture, will mostly be forgotten but always undeniably felt. With a loving, intimate record of it, we can begin to understand why.” – From the afterword by Tessa Thompson
Kate Sterlin : Still Life – Photographs & Love Stories
Anthology Editions
Essays by Arooj Aftab and Tessa Thompson
Language : English
Hardcover : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 1944860622
ISBN-13 : 978-1944860622
Item Weight : 2.05 pounds
Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.9 x 10.7 inches
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