Suggestion is one of photography’s greatest powers, something that American photographer Sandi Haber Fifield obviously understands. In her latest book, her third, After the Threshold, Fifield takes the reader into a dreamlike world where visual poetry and the imagination are essential. There’s really no need to understand these photographs grouped together according to theme, color and pattern. Viewers must project themselves into the images to find a vision rooted, perhaps, in our memories. These fragments of existence cannot function on their own, hence Fifield’s choice to place them together: the ubiquitous flowers speak to the lights, the objects and the people (often seen from behind) against the walls, reflections in the windows. These sequences might or might not be narratives; it’s up to the viewer to decide. After the Threshold is a strong project composed of photographs that are theoretically weak.
Read the full articles on the French version of Le Journal.
Jonas Cuénin
Sandi Haber Fifield, After the Threshold
Published by Kehrer Verlag
Hardcover
96 pages
158 color stills.
English available
ISBN 978-3-86828-364-8
39,90 Euros
